Son of elderly Kildonan fire victim being treated as suspect by police

The son of 82-year-old Rudolph Ross, also known as ‘Uncle Bruce,’ who perished in a fire at his Kildonan Village, Corentyne home in the wee hours of Monday, is being treated as a suspect in his father’s death.

Police and fire service investigators in Berbice are working together on the investigation into the fatal fire.

Ross, according to a post-mortem examination, died from smoke inhalation due to exposure to flames after a fire started in the upper flat kitchen of the two-storey Lot 14 Kildonan Village house, where he lived.

Although the cause of the fire was