AS the police continue their investigation into the murder of Richard Dey, who was gunned down a stone’s throw from his home at Rodney Dam, Mount Sinai, New Amsterdam, four persons, including a 19 year old are in custody assisting sleuths at the Central Police Station.According to reports, the teenager was detained after a sim card belonging to the deceased was recovered from him.
The teen had previously discovered the bloodied body of the mechanic, and had alerted the man’s wife. However, Ongel Lindie had reportedly told reporters that a cellular phone was all that was missing from her husband’s personal belongings.

Meanwhile, Government Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh failed to perform the post-mortem after the investigators along with the body of the deceased were unavailable at Anthony’s Funeral Home at Fort Wellington.
The forensic pathologist had earlier testified at the Berbice Assizes, and had motored to the West Coast Berbice location, before the arrival of the corpse. However, the post-mortem is expected to be conducted before the end of the week.
In the meantime, last Saturday, Dey, 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.
He had returned home with his wife Ongel Lindie, and their two children, just after 20:30 hrs. However, two hours later he left the home and was walking toward his car which was parked some 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.
According to information, after the shot was 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 man’s wife that Dey was lying motionless on the track, with what seemed 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. Reports reveal that his wife had called the number moments after hearing the gunshot, but the call was transferred to voicemail. She, having peered through the window, saw the car parked and had assumed that her husband was seated within talking to someone on the phone. However, after receiving the report from the teen, she ventured outside, and aided by a light from a cellular phone saw her husband lying motionless in an earthen drain.

However, while the family continues to be tight-lipped, his 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 the 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.”