POLICE are probing the suspected suicide of David Harris, 14, of 155 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, who was found hanging from the roof of a shed in his family’s yard yesterday.

He was the sixth of seven children of Desiree and David Harris, Senior, and a student of the Stewartville Secondary School.

Relatives said that around 09:00h, his sister Ketura, 16, went downstairs to empty the garbage and found David’s limp and lifeless body hanging from the roof of the shed.

The family belongs to the Assemblies of God church and relatives said that during morning devotions yesterday, when called upon to pray, David was reluctant and stoutly refused to take his turn at praying, which they found hard to comprehend.

After devotions, the other siblings went off performing different chores in the home, since they had no school yesterday.
His father, who was in Suriname at the time, was immediately informed by telephone and arrived in Guyana hours later.
A post mortem examination is to be performed on the body tomorrow.