Haslington accident victim still hospitalised
Dead: Kristoff Spencer
Dead: Kristoff Spencer

Accident victim Ebony Scott is still hospitalised with a broken leg and other injuries but an autopsy by Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh on the body of her 21-year-old boyfriend Christoff Spencer, revealed Monday that he died of multiple injuries.

Scott was the pillon rider on Spencer’s motorcycle heading west along Haslington Public Road when a canter truck travelling east attempted a right turn into a street in the village and collided with them. The accident occurred two Wednesdays ago.

This photograph of Calwin Carl Wilson, best friend of the now dead Kristoff Spencer

Spencer, a disc jockey, leader of the Gold Rush youth group, and resident of Lot 99 Charles Street, Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, died around 03:00 hrs last Sunday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) while receiving medical attention.

The Guyana Chronicle understands that the two had been sweethearts since they attended Hope Secondary School some years ago, and were members of the popular ‘Gold Rush’ group.
Spencer was also employed with the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL)

Reports are that Spencer sustained head injuries, injuries to his spinal cord and broken legs, while Scott also suffered a broken leg. When the Guyana Chronicle visited Spencer’s family Tuesday, his teenage sister Ashauna Profitt said she will miss him dearly.

“He was always a peaceful person (and) even if you’re in a bad mood he just know how to make you laugh,” she told the Guyana Chronicle.

She said her brother’s death came as a shock to her because he was never sick and she was unaware he had left home on the night of the accident.

He was more than just a brother to her;one who helped her make important life decisions and one of her closest friends. He was protective and always encouraged her in her educational pursuits.

Profitt, a former student of President’s College, took time off sixth form studies, but Spencer had decided with her that on her return she completes studies at that level.

“He said the justice system in this country is messed up so he wanted me to study law,” she stated. Her brother’s decision will chart the course of her studies and in years to come she is hoping to complete her law degree to make his dream for her life a reality.

DREAM TO FULFILL
Profitt said on the morning of last Wednesday, Spencer woke her up and they played as usual before he left for work. He returned later and after she went into her room, he entered and spoke to her.

His last words were, “I love you,” she said, and added “but I didn’t get to tell him back.”
Meanwhile, Spencer’s best friend Calwin Carl Wilson said the two of them along with a few others formed ‘Team Gold Rush’ youth group which carries the catch phrase “think it, believe it, achieve it” to promote education, joyfulness, respect, creativity, fashion and peace.

The theme of Team Gold Rush is “displaying our elegant movements throughout the world wherever we are and promoting educated members.”

Spencer, Wilson said, was the kind of person who was “always there for you” and though he is gone, his ideas for the group will blossom. The only sad thing,he said,is that Spencer will not be around to see his ideas materialise.

Wilson was featured last week in a photograph which appeared in the Guyana Chronicle Monday with the story of Spencer’s death. It was a mistaken identity as Wilson was mistakenly identified as Spencer in the photograph he took hugging Scott, who was the girlfriend of his dead best friend.

He told the Guyana Chronicle he was shocked to see himself in the photograph even after someone had telephoned early the morning informing him of the featured photograph. The Guyana Chronicle apologises to Wilson and his family, and the family of Spencer for the mistake.

Apart from Scott, Spencer leaves to mourn his parents and four siblings. Final arrangements for Spencer’s funeral are still to be made.

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