CRIME sleuths in Berbice have still not been able to apprehend the suspect in the Mount Sinai fatal shooting, one month after the incident.

The victim’s family have since been deprived of their breadwinner; murder victim Patrick Boodie has since been laid to rest at the Stanleytown cemetery in New Amsterdam; and investigators have since told the Chronicle that the police have acted on all information received, although there are no positive leads.

The 38-year-old Patrick Boodie succumbed at the New Amsterdam Hospital on April 16 last, even as medical personnel sought to save his life after he had been taken there approximately one hour before his demise.

A post-mortem examination revealed that death was due to multiple gunshot injuries (seven) and deep incised wounds sustained to his back and other parts of his body. Boodie was shot and chopped about his body after he had attempted to enquire about a squabble involving his sibling, Calvin Charles, and the suspects in the squatting area of High Dam in Mount Sinai, Greater New Amsterdam, commonly referred to as Angoy’s Avenue. Charles also had sustained incised injuries to his head and shoulder during the fracas, occasioned after he had set fire to nearby shrubs. He was hospitalised overnight at the New Amsterdam Hospital, and was discharged just in time to relate the incident to then Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who was visiting the Angoy’s Avenue community during the midday hours of Thursday, April 16.

Twenty-eight-year-old Jason Nicholson of Levi Dam, Angoy’s Avenue was also shot and injured to his right hand. He has since been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital, to which he had been referred.

Charles had told reporters that his sister had died and left several children behind. On the fateful day of Boodie’s shooting death, those children had told him that their landlord had requested that they vacate his premises. As a result, the uncles and other relatives had decided to erect a home on the land previously possessed by those children’s mother. Charles had lit the nearby grass, precipitating an altercation with the suspects.

By Jeune Bailey Vankeric