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Spent shell is only clue so far in taxi driver murder probe
Police on the East Coast of Demerara are continuing to look for clues that could lead them to the killer of taxi driver Roopchand Darsan of Enmore who was found dead in his car late Friday night.
So far detectives are no closer than they were on Friday night when they found the taxi driver slumped in his car with a bullet wound to his head on the Strathspey Railway Embankment.
Roopchand Darsan
The only clue so far is a .32 spent shell that was recovered from Darsan’s car.
Kaieteur News understands that Detectives have questioned several persons in the area where Darsan’s car with his body inside was discovered, however no one could positively identify the suspect who was reportedly seen fleeing the car after it crashed into a ditch along the Railway Embankment.
This newspaper spoke to several persons living in the close-by vicinity and most of them did not even know about the incident until they heard the voices of police and the wailing of relatives shortly after the body was discovered.
One woman who lives in a shack a few yards away said she was not even aware of the incident even up to the following morning.
In fact the incident was first reported as an accident and it was only until ranks from a police mobile patrol checked that it was confirmed as a murder.
“An unknown caller reported an accident and when the police went they stumbled upon the body,” a police source at the vigilance police station told this newspaper.
One of the dead man’s taxi driving colleagues told this newspaper that another driver had seen Darsan’s car in the ditch and thought that he had crashed and had left it there.
“He come and say, ‘me see alyuh partner like he crash by Strathspey’. He didn’t know was dead de man dead in de car. Is when people go and check and see inside, den dem know is wha really happen,” the driver said.
Colleagues of the dead taxi driver were also in shock after learning of his passing.
They are convinced that Darsan was not hired from the taxi park where they all operated from.
They believe that he either picked up the passenger on the road or was contacted via telephone to make the pick-up.
“That is why me gat fuh know is who callin me before I go pon a pick up. No strange body can’t call me fuh pick dem up, especially at night,” another driver stated.
The young man’s death is taking a devastating toll on his mother Latchmin Darsan, who will certainly mourn the loss of her only son for a long time.
“Ow gosh, me ain’t know how fuh explain this, is me only son,” she cried.
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