The RK security guard who was discovered dead on a roadway in the Diamond New Housing Scheme on Friday night, died as a result of shock and haemorrhage, an autopsy revealed, but the police are no closer to definitively stating how he was shot.
“It could be suicide but we are still investigating,” a senior police officer told Stabroek News when asked whether the post-mortem examination (PME) revealed whether the man may have killed himself. However, according to the officer tests done on the man’s hands “have not really” revealed any gun-powder residue.
Julian Edmond 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 with a gunshot wound to the head.
Yesterday his relatives would say nothing further on his death and directed this newspaper to the police when asked about the PME results. “I would prefer you go to the police,” Leonard, the brother of the dead man, told Stabroek News.
He said neither the police nor the doctor had shared the results with him and the paper, he waited for “whole day”, could only be used to register his brother’s death.
Embrack’s colleague, who was held following his death, was released on Monday morning
The security firm has since said that it would stand the funeral expenses; assist with the cost of wakes and all that is possible to see that the Embracks receive National Insurance Scheme (NIS) benefits.
“Up to the time of death, for several months, he was living at RK’s Security property located in Success, ECD,” a release from the company issued on Tuesday had said. “He was provided this facility as he said he had personal problems and had nowhere to stay.”
The police had said in a press release that a .38 service revolver belonging to Embrack, four spent shells and one live round were found near the body. However, the man’s brother had said 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 had said.
On Friday night, a Diamond resident reported hearing four shots some time before 10.30 pm as he sat on his upper balcony chatting 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.
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.
The owner of the security service, Roshan Khan, in an earlier press statement 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.”
