While unable to provide a timeline within which the investigation into the fatal shooting of Quindon Bacchus is expected to be completed, Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), retired judge William Ramlall, has said the body is working at a “very fast rate” on the probe.
“No one can determine no length of any investigation. We are working everyday on it and at a very fast rate,” Ramlall told Stabroek News during an invited comment.
Without providing any details, Ramlall said the PCA is faced with “new difficulties” daily as it relates to the investigation.
“Every day we are coming up with new difficulties,” he said.
Bacchus, 23, a father of one, was shot and killed by a policeman on June 10 at Haslington New Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The Guyana Police Force (GPF), in a statement, had claimed that Bacchus was fatally shot during a gunfight with an undercover policeman to whom he had trying to sell an illegal firearm.
An autopsy later showed that Bacchus died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.
Bacchus’ family, through attorney Darren Wade, had demanded an impartial investigation and called for answers to a number of questions, including whether the Force’s Standard Operating Procedures were adhered to before, during and after the shooting.
Two days after the shooting, police announced that the PCA would be investigating the matter. The shooter is said to be under close arrest.
After meeting Bacchus’ family, Commissioner of Police (ag), Clifton Hicken told the media “there will be an impartial investigation.”
Since the shooting, family members of Bacchus held a number of protests demanding justice and an update on the matter.
Just on Wednesday, they protested outside Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, and the Ministry of Home Affairs.
