The police have detained three drivers said to be involved in Monday night’s accident on the East Bank Public Road at Diamond, which claimed the life of ten-year-old Trevor Alstrom.
The child was decapitated when he was first hit by a speeding motorcycle, then a car and then a minibus. The child had been riding a pedal cycle some distance away from his 155 Grove, East Bank Demerara home.
According to a senior officer at the newly opened Golden Grove Police Station located in the Diamond New Scheme, all of the persons, including the motorcyclist, have been taken into custody. The rank said that the vehicles have been sent for forensic analyses at the crime unit in Georgetown.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, the father of the dead child said that the boy’s mother had died of an illness just over a year ago. The man, Joseph Alstrom, said too that two of his children also passed away as newborns years ago.
He said that since the mother’s death, he and his son lived in a small house in Grove. Alstrom told this newspaper that his son would usually play with friends and occasionally ride their bikes. But he said that he doesn’t know how his son would have ended up so far away from his home.
According to the man, while he was going home from a Chinese restaurant, a friend told him that his son had been hit down and was dead and by the time he and others ran to the scene of the accident, the body had been already removed. He said he is in contact with the police as their investigations continue.
