The RK security guard who was discovered dead on a roadway in the Diamond New Housing Scheme on Friday night with a gunshot wound to the head has been identified as Visiting Inspector Julian Edmond Embrack.
Police said yesterday that a man has been arrested and is assisting with the investigations while a post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted tomorrow.
Sources said that the man in custody is also attached to the security service.
Embrack, who was clad in his uniform, was discovered by a taxi driver some time after 10:30 pm on Friday on Second Street, Diamond.
While still unclear on the circumstances surrounding his death, Embrack’s relatives expressed concern regarding how he met his demise. They said too, that his employers failed to contact them following the shooting, and that they learnt of his death through a newspaper report.
“Someone called us yesterday morning and said that Julian’s name was in the papers and that he was dead…that was how we knew and ended up at RK Security,” a relative said.
Speaking with Stabroek News yesterday, Embrack’s brother, Leonard said attempts to contact RK Security owner Roshan Khan were unsuccessful and staff at the office had asked them to return tomorrow.
The brother said also, that officials at the security service were tightlipped and declined to answer many of his questions.
While a police release said yesterday that a .38 service revolver belonging to Embrack, along with four spent shells and one live round was found near the body, his relative said that he was an unarmed guard.
“An RK official told me that my brother was in training to carry a weapon, but that he was unarmed,” the brother said.
He said there were many unanswered questions, and that the family is interested in answers as soon as the information is available.
“Julian was a good man. He was easy-going and was never in any trouble… this death has hit our family really hard. We are shaken up,” the brother added.
On Friday night, a Diamond resident reported hearing four shots some time before 10:30 pm as he sat chatting on his upper balcony with a friend.
The man had told this newspaper that he looked in the direction the sounds came from but saw nothing.
Approximately 45 minutes later, he saw a number of police vehicles drive through the street and stop at the first cross street. It was only then, he said, that he realized that something was wrong.
In a statement yesterday, owner of the security firm, Roshan Khan described Embrack as “very reliable and dynamic with his work”.
Embrack was employed as a Site Security Officer on September 24 last and was subsequently promoted to Visiting Inspector on his request and after training.
Khan said in the statement that Embrack was an officer who could be counted on to work beyond the call of duty and who was always respectful to his seniors, management and the company’s clients.
“He always displayed professionalism, decency and courtesy,” the statement said.
Khan said the entire staff was shocked, depressed and disappointed over the loss of life of a competent officer.
“In regards to his death, how or why, we cannot answer this for we were not there, nor were we in his head, especially as he reported as normal and went ahead with his work as usual,” Khan said in the statement. “It is best to await the autopsy and necessary forensic tests which will tell us exactly how it happened.
If it was self-inflicted that will be known as there are certain traits and evidence which will determine this. If it was by assassination/murder that will also be established. We have faith in the system.”
Embrack’s body is currently at the Lyken’s Funeral Home.
