Five teenagers nabbed in car rented by murdered dreadlocked man

THE police have been able to identify the dreadlocked man whose body was discovered on Friday with suspected gunshot wounds at a lonely section of Liliendaal over the railway embankment on the East Coast of Demerara.The Guyana Chronicle has been reliably informed that five teenagers have been arrested and are in police custody in relation to the matter. According to reports, the teens were arrested during a routine police operation on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. None of them at the time could have said where they were going, or who owned the car they were driving.
However, the police on the highway did not know at the time that the men or the car might be connected to the death of the man whose body was found with bullet holes at another location. It was only when the police on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway contacted the owner of the car by using the information on the registration that they were informed that the vehicle was rented to a man sporting dreadlocks.
The teenagers were immediately taken into custody, and further investigation revealed that the car the men were driving had been rented to Rafael Campbell. It was then that investigators were able to determine that the body found on Friday afternoon was that of Campbell.
Yesterday, the mother of the man’s children, Ms Romain Cadogan, related in an interview with the Guyana Chronicle that she had last seen Campbell alive on Thursday, when he had gone to visit his two children, aged three and nine years old.
The woman said that she had been trying to contact the man all weekend, but to no avail. She said that at the time of his death he no longer lived with her, but would visit there whenever he visited his other girlfriend, who lives across the street from her.
She said she became aware of the man’s demise only when the police visited her on Sunday night and began questioning her about the man and his description. She said she was then informed by the police that the man was found dead.
Campbell is said to be a taxi driver who operates in the interior. He recently travelled to the city, and whenever he does, he would operate the taxi from the Kitty Gas Station to other parts of the city, his relatives said.

(By Leroy Smith)