The family of Jumal Park has raised concerns over what they see as a lack of effort being made to apprehend the third suspect in the teen’s murder and are requesting a wanted bulletin be released. Had Park been alive, he would have celebrated his seventeenth birthday today.
“Enough effort is not being made to catch the third suspect. We see him couple times in our area and now we hearing that he was staying over the river [West Bank Demerara]. When we tell the commander, he said that these [criminals] got family that does be hiding them,” sister of the dead teen, Aneisa Park said.
She further said that the family has since learnt that the suspect on the run has relatives in French Guiana. Upon learning this, the family visited the police last week to give them this update and were told that he has already been blacklisted.
The woman is also pleading with the police to release a wanted bulletin so that the third suspect could be apprehended at the soonest. Having heard that the suspect was also an accomplice to another murder prior to that of her brother, she believes that his being caught may save someone else’s life.
Meanwhile, the family is wondering if the judicial system is moving too slowly as well. Aneisa said two of the three suspects were charged with Park’s murder back in October and were set to return on November 18 but the hearing was postponed to November 26. However, the hearing scheduled for that day (Thursday) was again postponed.
Twenty-year-old Mekonnen Deflorimonte also known as ‘Meko’ of La Penitence, Georgetown and eighteen-year-old Rayon James, who goes by the name ‘Ray Ray’ of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown were charged with Park’s murder on October 16. The next hearing is set for December 14.
The mother of one of the suspects, Aneisa said, visited her mother two days after the death of her brother. She recalls the woman apologising for her son’s actions saying that all he did was beat Park and was not the one to kill him. The woman, she added, also said that her son was stubborn and was always getting into trouble, while noting that she was always begging him to change his ways but he never listened.
Since the incident, Park’s family has been trying to find a new place to live as they fear for their safety, since the suspects know their address. Last Monday, the dead teen’s mother awoke to find that her Wi-Fi cable had been cut and she worries that it may be somehow connected to her son’s demise.
Park who resided in Albouystown was working at a wash bay on Front Road, West Ruimveldt, when he was attacked by three men, one of whom he had had an argument with shortly before.
On the day he was killed, Park had $60,000 and a gold earring on his person, but neither money nor jewellery was found after the fatal attack.
“I want them to face the consequences of their actions. What did my brother do for them to kill him? He was just a teenager who was working honestly. He was working to support our mother,” Aneisa lamented. Park’s mother who is a security guard was unable to work following her son’s murder which occurred on October 13. She returns to her job today.
