Missing fisherman died of gunshot

Quincy Oliver Sooklall

The fears of the mother of Quincy Oliver Sooklall, whose body was pulled from the Demerara River with visible marks of violence and what appeared  to be a gaping hole through his chest, were confirmed when an autopsy last Friday revealed that he died of a gunshot wound.

On the afternoon of Saturday August 3rd, Sooklall’s decomposing body was fished out of the Demerara River behind the Guyana Fisheries.

His mother Petronella Sooklall had said the body was in such a state of