Tragedy up the Berbice River
Andel Daniels at age 11.
Andel Daniels at age 11.

… Teen found dead with bullet wound to abdomen

By Jeune Bailey Van Keric

UNIMAGINABLE grief has overtaken a Berbice family for the second time in three years, after 19-year-old Andel Daniels, who left his High Dam, Angoy’s Avenue home to work on a farm at Catherineburg, Canje River, about 60 miles from New Amsterdam, was found dead with a bullet to his abdomen.Relatives received news of the teen’s death on Thursday evening. “After the phone call, we rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where we waited for the arrival of the body, which was naked. Andel’s mouth and eyes were wide open, and there was a gaping wound on his abdomen, just above his navel. There were also bruises on his left side,” a relative stated.

The family’s pain is immense and intense, made more poignant because they are still coping with the disappearance of the teen’s then pregnant mother, Gould Marcell Amsterdam, who went missing in October, 2013.

Speculation is rife about how her son, Daniels, who had left home in March to work with friends on a cultivation a short distance from the riverine community of Ikura, was shot.
Police ranks have since been dispatched to the riverine community to ascertain how the teen came to sustain a gunshot wound to his abdomen, just above his navel.

Relatives, expressing disappointment at not being able to accompany ranks to the location, have reported that no weapon was found at the scene.

“The police had requested that a relative accompany them in the boat; but when the relative got to the stelling, the boat was full. They should have allowed a relative, as requested,” one relative, who did not want her name published, stated.
This newspaper was told that after the teen was shot, he was taken by canoe to Ikura, after which a motorized boat took him to Baracara, where he was seen by the Medex before being transported by the Health Centre boat to New Amsterdam, where he was placed into a police vehicle and taken to the hospital. Medical personnel then certified his death.

Andel Daniels leaves to mourn his younger siblings Akeesha Daniels and Javzel Lindo, and other relatives and friends.

 

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