The body of Elick Alexander, a 55-year-old Wismar boat captain who went missing on Saturday was recovered yesterday morning in the Demerara River at around 10 am.
Alexander went missing after allegedly being pushed overboard by two passengers on Saturday morning.
Hugh Winter, Region 10 Commander told Stabroek News that two suspects remain in police custody.
According to a police report, Alexander was allegedly pushed overboard at approximately 1 am on Saturday, about 40 feet off the Wismar shore in Linden.
Alexander was the captain of a blue and white passenger boat that operates from the Wismar shore to the Mackenzie shore.
Enquiries revealed that Alexander was on the Mackenzie shore awaiting passengers when a 25-year-old unemployed man of Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie, and a 24-year-old unemployed man of Red Crescent Road, Mackenzie, boarded the boat for the Wismar shore.
While the boat was about 40 feet off the Wismar shore, Alexander was allegedly shoved out of the boat. The boat then proceeded north on the Demerara River.
The incident was reported to the police at 1:10 am, and Deputy Superintendent De Hearte, Inspector Lewis, Detective Sergeant Jacque, and other ranks visited the scene around 1:20 am.
De Hearte, the police said, then launched a drone, and during an aerial search, the boat was located in the vicinity of Spieghtland with the two suspects. Alexander was not on the boat and a subsequent search for him proved futile.
