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Greek national’s wound was self-inflicted
Vlachakis Zackarias
A post mortem examination performed on the body of Greek national, Vlachakis Zackarias, has confirmed that the gunshot wound he sustained to the right temple was self-inflicted.
Zackarias, 54, was found dead early yesterday morning by his wife Rosemarie Budarsingh, minutes after the couple had been engaged in an argument at their 123 Ramsingh Street, Annandale, East Coast Demerara residence.
Although the police had recovered a .32 revolver next to the dead man’s body, they did not assume that his death was a case of suicide. As a precaution they had swabbed the dead man’s hands as well as those of his wife.
But according to a source close to the investigation, the pathologist who performed the post mortem suggested that the trajectory of the bullet wound indicated that it was self-inflicted.
This coupled with the fact that Zackarias was right-handed, convinced police that his death was suicide.
Zacharias, and his wife of 10 years, lived with their eight-year-old son and operated a fast food/water distribution business. They also have a poultry farm at Grassfield, Mahaica Creek.
Neighbours said that the couple had had previous domestic quarrels.
On Tuesday, neighbours said that they heard the couple quarrelling incessantly.
They also heard the shattering of glass which suggested that the argument was more violent than normal. A brief period of silence ensued followed by a loud explosion.
Budarsingh had told investigators that following their argument, her husband went into his study and locked the door from inside. She said she heard the gunshot and upon peering through a bottom flat window, she saw Zackarias lying motionless, slumped in a sofa.
The woman broke the window and according to her, only then did she realize that her husband had shot himself.
She summoned a relative and then drove to the Vigilance Police Station where she reported the matter.
Kaieteur News understands that Zacharias and Budarsingh had met more than a decade ago while she was living in Berbice.
Police said that the Greek national who is a naturalized Guyanese was previously a licenced firearm holder but had lost his weapon when a boat he owned sunk in the Mahaica Creek a few years ago.
Zackarias’s death is being linked to his apparent frustration over heavy indebtedness to a city bank.
This newspaper understands that he had threatened to kill himself on a previous occasion and had even asked his wife to take his son to Greece.
There are also reports that another son, from a previous relationship in his homeland, had visited Guyana and had made off with a significant amount of his money.
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