A MALE of African descent was yesterday found with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the face. The man was found aback Good Hope, on the East Bank Essequibo.

The Guyana Chronicle learnt that the man appears to be one of four suspects who were being sought by the police for an armed robbery which was committed on the home of a woman last week Friday in the Ruby area.
Investigators were called to the scene of the discovery by persons who were traversing the area yesterday and stumbled on the decomposing remains of the man.
The bloated body was discovered in a striped jersey and his underwear bloated and floating just at the corner of canal in the “Backdam.”
The police are convinced that the man was part of the robbery since the mobile phone of the woman’s whose home they invaded was found close to the body of the man yesterday when the discovery of the body was made.
On his right arm bore a tattoo “God bless. The police are asking anyone with information that may lead to the identity of the man to come forward.

(Leroy Smith)