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Man mysteriously drops dead on America Street
Police are investigating the death of a 33-year-old man who succumbed on America and Longden Streets after a serious bout of vomiting blood on Saturday night.
Dead: Raymond Smith
The man was identified as Raymond Smith of 414, Princes Street, Werk-en-rust.
Kaieteur News understands that smith was imbibing beers with friends shortly before his demise.
His sister, Arissa Richmond is alleging that her brother’s death could have been prevented if police, who were in the vicinity in a patrol vehicle at the time, had rendered assistant in taking Smith to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC.)
“If my brother was taken to the hospital by the police he might have been alive…the police was passing and just stopped for 15 minutes and watch my brother vomiting blood on the corner,” the grieving woman lamented.
Richmond explained that while selling at her bread stand at Stabroek Market, a female patron who wanted to purchase bread changed her mind and mentioned that she just saw a man vomiting blood around the corner.
“I didn’t realize was my brother she was talking about, is when my sister who left to go home, run back and tell me is our brother, then I know…When I reach is share blood on the street and a piece of bone was in between the blood.”
The grieving woman further said she was assisted by two friends in placing her bother into a vehicle to take him to the GPHC. However, Smith was pronounced dead on arrival at the Hospital.
“My brother died on my lap while he was going to the hospital.”
Ms Richmond added that after the agonizing ordeal, she visited the Brickdam Police Station and made a report pertaining to the action of the police who did not render assistant in saving her brother’s life.
She said police from the Criminal Investigation Department visited the hospital and subsequently advised her to return tomorrow (Tuesday) to the Brickdam Police Station so that the allegations could be investigated.
Meanwhile, a post mortem examination will have to be performed to determine the cause of Smith’s death.
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