RICHARD Dey, gunned down a stone’s throw from his home at Rodney Dam, Mount Sinai, West Canje Berbice last Saturday, died as a result of a shot fired from close range from a gun that was pressed to the left side of his neck in the vicinity of the clavicle [collar bone].

The explosion blew apart a portion of his brain, and death was instantaneous.

Government Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh, who performed the post-mortem at the Anthony Funeral Home at Fort Wellington, WCB, reported that death was as a result of shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injuries.

Police ‘B’ Division Commander, Brian Joseph reported that four persons arrested in connection with the incident, including a teenager, have since been released. However, the probe continues, and sleuths are looking at other sources with whom the deceased may have been employed.

Dey, a forty-year-old father of two, had, moments before his death last Saturday, dispatched bags of goodies to several friends in commemoration of his son’s one-year birthday. He had returned home with his wife Ongel Lindie and their two children just after 20:30hrs. Two hours later, he left the home and was walking toward his car, parked 100 metres away, when he met his demise.

Sources allege that just before Dey was shot, someone was overheard saying, ‘Let me see what the [expletive] you will do now,’ before an explosion was heard.

After the shot had been fired, the injured man’s wife allegedly called out to him but got no response. Seconds later, a teenager who frequents the unlit walkway reportedly told Dey’s wife that Dey was lying motionless on the track with what seemed to be blood gushing from a wound to his neck.

Dey’s left hand clutched a cigarette and a lighter, while his right hand clutched his car key. His cellular phone was the only article missing from his person. His wife had reportedly telephoned his number moments after hearing the gunshot, but the call was transferred to voicemail. She, having peered through a window and seeing the car parked, had assumed that her husband was seated within the vehicle and was talking to someone on the phone.

However, after receiving the teen’s report, she ventured outside and, aided by a light from a cellular phone, saw her husband lying motionless in an earthen drain.