TWENTY-five-year-old Lamount Franklyn Fraser, a Management Trainee at the Albion Estate, was found hanging in the bottom-flat rental apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Kean Dey, at Lot 39 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

It was just around 13:00hrs that neighbours became aware that something was amiss at the apartment where Fraser and Dey had moved in just three weeks before.

And while Dey refused to speak to reporters, Lamount’s uncle, Aubrey Bovell, who raised him like a son, recalled speaking to him on the phone earlier in the day.

“During that conversation,” a distraught Bovell said, “Lamount asked for a computer; I told him to wait. But he said it was urgent. As a result, I asked him to speak to his grandmother, as she raised him, too, after his mother left for overseas. His grandmother told him to take the money from the bank. Now this…,” he managed, unable to finish his sentence.

Although at press-time, Lamount’s grandmother was unaware of his demise, his colleagues at the Albion Sugar Factory were reeling in shock after word got around that the prospective manager had died.

Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) staffer Roxanne Smith confirmed that Fraser was at work a mere two hours before they got the sad news.

Lamount Fraser had attended the New Amsterdam Multilateral School, Guyana Sugar Corporation Training School, and the University of Guyana, at which latter institution he earned a Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

He leaves to mourn his parents, siblings and other relatives and friends. An investigation is ongoing.