An autopsy has determined that Steven Renaldo Tinnie, the Surinamese national whose body was found on the Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara on Monday, died as a result of multiple injuries and a fractured skull, supporting the suspicion that he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
Police yesterday confirmed the cause of death based on a post-mortem examination performed by pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh and added that investigation’s into Tinnie’s death remain ongoing.
Tinnie, of D’Urban Street, Georgetown, was found dead with bruises and lacerations on the roadway, which were among signs that he was hit by a vehicle as he was crossing the road and left for dead.
His fiancée, Shamila Austin, told Stabroek News that she last saw him in the wee hours of Monday when he escorted her to a taxi, on the East Bank Public Road, and left to re-join birthday festivities at his friend’s house in nearby Somerset Court.
“I jump in the car and see he take off his shirt like he hot and head back as if he going to the party… I called [the friend] and tell he let Steven sleep over and didn’t think nothing of it until he ain’t call all day Monday,” Austin said.
Austin said she became worried and called the friend’s wife to inquire if Steven was still at the house but was told he had never returned and that they thought he had gone home with his family. She then contacted the man’s mother and after learning that he was not there either, she went to the Providence Police Station to find out if he had been locked up for jaywalking drunk.
The woman said that she became suspicious that “something bad” had happened when a police officer asked her to sit as she informed that a body matching Tinnie’s description was at the Lyken Funeral Parlour. Her worst fears were confirmed when she visited the funeral home.
