AS police continue investigating the unlawful killing of Richard Dey, who was gunned down a stone’s throw from his home at Rodney Dam, Mount Sinai, his close friend has been taken into custody to assist police in their investigations.

The 40-year-old father of two had, moments before, dispatched bags of goodies to several friends in honour of his son’s first birthday, and had returned home with his wife Ongel Lindie and their two children just after 20:30 hrs.

Two hours later, he left his home and was walking towards his car, parked 100 metres away, when he was attacked.
Sources revealed 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.

Information suggests that after the shot had been fired, the injured man’s wife called out to him but got no response. Seconds later, a teenager who would frequent the unlit walkway reported to the woman that her husband was lying motionless on the track with what appeared to be blood gushing from a wound to his neck.

In Dey’s left hand was a cigarette and a lighter, while his right hand clutched his car key. His cellular phone was the only article missing from his person.

Reports reveal that his wife had telephoned the number moments after hearing the gunshot, but the call had been transferred to voicemail. She, having peered through a window, saw the car parked and had assumed that her husband was seated within 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 a roadside drain.

While the family continues to be tight-lipped, Dey’s associates described him as an arrogant man who had lost respect for persons.
On August 28 last, Dey, armed with a piece of lumber, had inflicted several lashes about the body of a man of unsound mind at Pitt Street, New Amsterdam.

Relatives of Seon George said their loved one suffered multiple fractures, resulting in him wearing Plaster of Paris on his lower extremities. Dey was never charged.

A week prior to his death, he was overheard arguing with a known character who had threatened to ‘done he dance’.

Dey’s body was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His remains are awaiting a post-mortem examination, expected to be conducted by Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh at Anthony’s Funeral Home at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice.
(Jeune Bailey Vankeric)