One month after a Mon Repos man was gunned down in a hail of bullets at Ogle, there appears to be no positive sign that the case is ever going to be solved.
This is according to a relative of Kimal Khan, the 42-year-old resident of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD), who was shot dead at the Ogle Public Road after midnight on October 15.
Stabroek News, in an effort to get an update on the murder, first contacted Commander of Regional Division 4 C Senior Superintendent Khalid Pareshram, who said that the investigation was ongoing and no one so far has been arrested for the murder.
A relative of the Khan said that since the incident, there has been absolute silence on the part of the Guyana Police Force and its investigative unit. “It looks like that matter might be a cold case because I’m not hearing anything from the police. We give the police our number to call us in case of anything; nothing. So, it looks like… you know, Guyana police are already reluctant and can’t depend on them,” the relative said.
“Because I don’t believe that if someone was bad, you have to leave everything like that and forget about everything.”
On the other hand, the relative also believes that the force’s actions might be based on what was said by Khan’s girlfriend, who was with him on the night of the murder. “Because I can’t see the shooting and they don’t have footage and I heard other people have footage of what went down on the night of the murder,” the relative said.
According to police, the incident occurred just after midnight at the Ogle traffic light. At the time Khan was in the company of his 21-year-old girlfriend.
The girlfriend had stated that the two left their Mon Repos home on a black Honda motorcycle, CL5173, just about 11 pm and visited a bar not far from their home, where they both consumed alcohol. As time went by, the couple decided that it was time to move to another entertainment spot in Georgetown.
Around 00.10 hrs, they were at the traffic light at Ogle on the motorcycle waiting for the light to change when three unidentifiable men in a Toyota Allion car (plate number unknown) pulled up beside them and fired several rounds in their direction and sped away, heading south along the Ogle Access Road.
As a result, Khan and the girl fell to the ground. Khan sustained multiple gunshot wounds, but his girlfriend was not hit. When Khan’s body was later examined, several gunshot wounds were observed; one on the left side of the chest and two to the right side of the head, while six 9mm spent shells were recovered from the scene.
Khan was later pronounced dead.
The area was canvassed for CCTV cameras, which were seen. There is no word on whether the footage has been reviewed.
A post-mortem examination later revealed that Khan died of three gunshot wounds; two to the right side of the head and one to the right side of his chest.
Days after the incident occurred, the girlfriend said that she was still in shock, as she was there when it all went down.
When asked to recount what happened that night, the young lady in an interview said that she saw everything, from the minute the car pulled up and gunshots started to ring out, to seeing Khan motionless after.
“I started to hear the gunshots, so I turned my face and the shooting lasted for about 40 seconds after the gunshot stopped, he dropped and I dropped with him because I was holding on to him. Both of us fell to the ground with the bike and everything and the car turned for the line-top and started to speed off. I stood up and I watched at the car and then I went back to him. I see he had a gunshot to his head and the blood kept pitching out from his head and he fell on his face. He lay down on the road and did not say a word, nothing came out of his mouth.”
His girlfriend in tears said that she has lost a companion who was good to her, devoted to the Islamic faith, and would make anyone laugh.
When the girlfriend was asked what she thought would have triggered the incident, she insisted that it might have been out of jealousy coupled with the fact that he was shot back in September.
“He got shot last month. It was a Sunday morning when he left the house he turned and told me to lay down, I am coming back. I’m not taking long. I going and deal with this problem with the boys. I have to get back my bike if I don’t deal with this problem, I can’t get back my bike. He left me and gone; he and his two friends, ‘Shawnie’ and the next guy. I was waiting for him and over an hour passed and I didn’t see him coming back. So, I borrowed a bike from the neighbour and went on the road but I didn’t see him. All day passed and I didn’t see him. It wasn’t till around 2 pm, I heard he got shot in his back. It was till 6 pm I came back, I done went to the station and I done went to the hospital. Is when I came back home, he told me that he got shot in his foot and his friend died,” she added.
In September a man by the name of ‘Shawnie’ was shot dead in Mon Repos. However, there is no clear indication from the authorities that the two incidents were related.
