Investigators are currently on the hunt for two suspects in the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle and it is believed that they may have fled the jurisdiction.
This is according to Commander of ‘C’ Division Calvin Brutus, who told Stabroek News yesterday that efforts are being made to apprehend the suspects.
Two other persons were initially taken into custody but they were subsequently released since there was no substantial evidence linking them to the crime. However, Brutus noted that they have been ordered to report to the police on a daily basis.
Gentle’s lifeless body was discovered last Monday morning with chop wounds and his head almost severed from his neck at Haslington, East Coast Demerara.
The 55-year-old had left his Lot 42 Golden Grove, ECD home to attend a karaoke event at Nabaclis North, also on the East Coast.
The motive for his killing remains unknown. However, robbery was ruled out since all his belongings were retrieved from his pockets
Stokley Roberts, the dead man’s brother, had told this newspaper that based on the injuries inflicted, it was clear that Gentle’s attacker/s wanted him dead.
“That’s more like an ambush… No one would have received those kind of wounds and live. When a man head actually come off his body, how he gonna live like that? He wasn’t robbed because everything was retrieved from his pocket, in terms of his phone, he had on a ring. So it was clearly a murder,” Roberts had said.
