By Cathy Richards
Relatives and close friends of Damion Lindore, who died following an accident on the Linden Soesdyke Highway on Wednesday night, have questions about how he died.
Reports reaching the family indicated that Lindore called ‘Pointer’ had collided with a dog in the vicinity of Silver Hill on the highway which resulted in him being thrown from the car. He is said to have died on the spot while the other passenger in the car Kemol McAlmont escaped with just a few scratches. Lindore, age 23 years, was behind wheel of his black Toyota Allion HB 8153 at the time of the accident.
Speaking with the Stabroek News from her Silvertown home yesterday, Lindore’s girlfriend Nekisha Elexey said that she spoke with him earlier that night shortly after 7:00pm. “He was supposed to come and pick up me and his son and I asked him if he wasn’t coming anymore and he said no he going on the highway [where] some Ram turn over and he going and get parts from his vehicle for it. He, Kemol and two others”, the woman related. She called him a second time that night about 9:30pm and asked him if he was back in Linden and he said no.
“He told me that something bad had happened to him and he was going to call me when he reach up and that was it, that was the last time I spoke to him”, Elexey recalled. She is the mother of Lindore’s three-month old baby. Some two hours after her last call to him she received word of the accident. According to the woman, details of the incident which have been fed to the family simply do not add up.
She said that cash in excess of $700,000 and a quantity of jewellery were carted off. The woman pointed out that the persons who stole the money cut open the area where it was in the vehicle to take it.
Additionally, Elexey said too that the car was also totally stripped of the internal accessories and only the shell and the engine remained by the time they got to the scene, which is approximately 10 to 15 minutes away from Linden.
She further contended that there were no visible blood stains in the car consistent with smash-ups. “The air bag in the vehicle ain’t bust…the windscreen was not broken out from where he could have been thrown from the vehicle”, the woman said. She added that the family wants the police to thoroughly investigate this matter.
Details of the accident indicated that McAlmont had originally been driving a Dodge Ram which subsequently had a tyre blow-out on the highway.
He then engaged the services of Lindore who accompanied him to the scene in his car. Relatives are of the suspicion that when the two arrived at the scene something happened which resulted in Lindore’s death and according to them, it was not the accident as was reported. Elexey said there was a gaping wound to the back of Lindore’s head suspected to have been caused by a sharp blunt object and another wound to the forehead resembling a hit from a rock.
But when Stabroek News visited the scene yesterday afternoon a man who said he was the first to arrive on the scene on Wednesday night provided details of an accident. Giving an account of what he said he witnessed, Granville Gill said that the car Lindore was driving collided with a dog around 22:30hrs.
Gill recalled that he was sitting in front of his shop when he saw a black car speeding along the Linden Soesdyke Highway heading towards Georgetown. “By the time it fly pass me suh a second after I heard a bladdam! So I say this car knock something down and it start toppling on the road mekking a big noise”, he said.
The Silver Hill resident said upon realizing what had happened he called for assistance and ran to the scene. The man noted while approaching the car he saw a man walk from the scene and go on the opposite side and sat on the road; it was the passenger Kemol McAlmont.
“I said buddy what happened with you and he said -oh God Oh God -see what happened to my partner”, Granville recounted. Lindore was found outside of the car lying on the road motionless. He was later pronounced dead at the Linden Hospital Complex.
McAlmont, the lone passenger in the vehicle at the time of the accident, is still a patient at the Linden Hospital Complex.
He had no recollection of how the accident occurred. Damion was a recent addition to group of taxi drivers on the Wismar shore and was well liked among the drivers on the park.
