The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has returned the file in the matter of the alleged fatal friendly shooting of police sergeant Alex Vaughn to the police for the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to conduct further investigation, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has told Stabroek News.
Vaughn was a part of a special Joint Services team on the hunt for prison escapee Akeem Wong, when he was fatally shot in the area of Karrau, in Region Seven.
A police constable was under close arrest assisting with the investigation, based on preliminary information that he allegedly and unintentionally fatally wounded Sergeant Vaughn on Tuesday March 12.
Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken had ordered the OPR to conduct a probe to be supervised by the Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority.
A post-mortem examination conducted by government pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh revealed that he died as a result of a gunshot injury to the abdomen.
Singh disclosed that there were three gunshot wounds. One caused an abrasion to the right side of the abdomen, the other, an abrasion to the right leg, while the third entered through the left side of the abdomen and exited through the right-side buttock.
