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Man dumped with gunshot to head
The body of an unidentified male with a suspected gunshot to the face was found yesterday afternoon in a clump of bushes behind Project Dawn, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. The man, who appeared to have dreadlocks, was clad in a stripe jersey. A pair of black suede female shoes was found beside the body. There was a bloodied jersey and a large rock near the body too.
“The body was not decomposing so we believe he was killed probably around Thursday,” one police source explained. There were bruises about the body also, which could suggest that he was probably
Investigators at the scene yesterday afternoon.
beaten too.
Kaieteur News was told that the body was discovered by workers at the Amerindian Hostel, which is not a far distance away from Project Dawn. The police were quickly summoned to the area. Up to press time last night residents and police were yet to identify the man.
Last week the body of Pegasus Hotel taxi driver, Rudrinauth Jeeboo, was found in a clump of garbage on Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt Gardens, early Saturday morning. Relatives identified the body at the Lyken Funeral Home. Up to last week detectives were reviewing the surveillance tapes at the hotel. Jeeboo had picked up a male and female at the hotel. That was the last time that anyone there had seen him alive.
Cane View Avenue is desolate at nights and several people have been slain there over the years. In the late eighties, the decomposing bodies of two unidentified women were found in the canal at the southern side of the street.
On November 21, last, the decomposing remains of 43-year-old Dexter Baveghems, a homeless man, was found wrapped in a tarpaulin on Cane View Avenue, between Purpleheart Street and David Rose Avenue.
The body bore marks of violence.
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