RAY Mangal, a 46-year-old businessman of 2244 Buddy’s Housing Scheme at Providence, East Bank Demerara was last evening found dead in his house with a bullet wound to the head.

According to information reaching this newspaper, Mangal was found lying in a motionless position in his bedroom with his licenced firearm nearby. Unconfirmed reports seem to suggest that he shot himself in the mouth and the bullet reportedly exited the back of his head.

Police sources have confirmed that ‘a note’ was left in the man’s house which appeared to be a suicide note left by him. Detectives are to examine the writing on the paper to determine if the note was indeed written by the now dead businessman.

Last evening, while this publication was at the scene, it was clearly evident from the way family members operated and conducted themselves that there is rift among them. A woman who showed up at the scene and was identified as the dead man’s wife was literally chased out of the premises by an aunt of the deceased.

Following that, the mother and aunt of the dead man were heard getting into a heated argument while other family members sought to calm them down.

As the hearse arrived and undertakers were attempting to take the remains of the man out of the yard, the aunt was openly – and to the top of her voice – heard referring to the dead man as an (expletive) as she instructed the undertakers to “ take this (expletive) out of here”.
Ray Mangal has, for some time now, been operating a mining concession in the Mahdia area at a location called White Hole.
The concession is that of his step-father but, according to information reaching this publication, the man whose name was provided as one Jordan is no longer able to physically oversee the operations of his mining concession and as such Mangal was tasked with running the business.

One friend who was at the scene of the murder last night, told this newspaper that he was out with the man on Friday evening and they went home on Saturday (yesterday) morning. The friend said that he slept over at the same house in which the man was found dead.

He also recalled that when he dropped home Mangal, the man was vomiting and was highly intoxicated as they had a very good time hanging together. He said the man did not exhibit any signs of being in distress.

Another friend reported that he was called by another close associate of the businessman to go and check on him and when he arrived at the house he found the man dead in the house.

The Buddy’s Housing Scheme is a gated community and right in front of the house where the man was found dead, there is a security hut. The security who was on duty when this publication arrived on the scene related that he did not hear any gunshots.