Seven-year-old killed in Mon Repos accident

Oct 27, 2012 News

Up to press time yesterday relatives of a Vryheid’s Lust woman who lost her son in an accident were keeping a close eye on her because she is of the view that suicide is the best way to deal with her son’s death.
Around 13:30 hours yesterday, Malinda Harris, was hit with the horrific news that her seven-year-old son, Ezekiel Harris, was killed in an accident at Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Reports are that the child was crossing the Agriculture Road when he was struck by a car.
“Like somebody call he across the road fuh a hundred dollar and he collect the money and same speed he turn around and go to run back across the road, but a truck went on the road so no way the car driver coulda see he,” an eyewitness told this publication.
The driver of the car stopped and took the injured lad to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
At the lad’s home relatives were seen restraining his mother in the yard because she kept threatening to take her own life.
“We just had to hold she back cause she start running and saying she going and plunge overboard. She say she can’t deal with she son death,” one relative told this publication.
A cousin of the dead lad, Shondell Inniss, told this publication that Ezekiel along with several other youths from the area left to go to a nearby Masjid to collect beef.
“We see when they lef a whole group of them and then we hear that they gone to Mon Repos but we didn’t worry too much because it had some big boys with them.”
However a few hours later Inniss said that the family received the horrific news that the lad was dead.
“All we hear is that he run across the road and into a car,” the woman wept.
Inniss said the lad’s death is a real blow to family members who are preparing for a wedding later today.
The woman said that the incident also brings back sad memories as a few years ago when she lost an uncle in a similar fashion at the very spot where Ezekiel died.
“A couple years ago the uncle lef home on this same Muslim holiday to collect beef and on the same road he get hit down by a car,” Inniss told this publication.
The woman said that Ezekiel was one of seven children for his mother and attended the Vryheid’s Lust Primary School.
Meanwhile the driver of the car which was involved in the accident has been detained and is assisting with the investigation.

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