POLICE are searching for two male suspects, one of whom is alleged to have cold-bloodedly murdered 40-year-old miner, Orlando LaCruz, of Pomeroon River, about 13:00hrs Thursday at a camp in Jack and Vieira Backdam, North West District (NWD).

According to a police report, investigation revealed that the victim and the suspects were imbibing inside the camp when an argument erupted over the refusal of the victim to perform oral sex on one of the suspects.

That suspect was armed with a shotgun.

The annoyed armed suspect, loaded the firearm with a cartridge which was given to him by the other suspect and he shot the victim to the right side of the neck, killing him.

The body is at the Matthew’s Ridge District Hospital Mortuary awaiting post-mortem examination. Police are investigating the murder.