Georgetown: The teenage son of a politician and an enforcement officer of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday killed himself at his residence at Triumph, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The 15 year old boy allegedly left a note behind before he killed himself.
Police said that the incident occurred at 14:45 hours and investigation revealed that the deceased resides with his father who is an enforcement officer at GRA, his mother, a teacher and politician, and two sisters and one brother.
Reports indicate that about 06:30 the teen’s father left home for work, leaving his licenced firearm, a pistol with a number of matching rounds on top of a built-in closet which is located in his bedroom on the lower flat of a two storey house.
His wife left shortly after for work, leaving the baby sitter alone with the teen, his brother and sisters.
According to one of the sisters, she was inside her room when her brother went into her bedroom and give her a book page with writing and went back into his bedroom.
As a result, she followed him and saw when he went into his haversack and took out a firearm and closed his bedroom door and shortly after she heard a gunshot.
She went downstairs and told the baby sitter what she saw. The baby sitter was at that time downstairs with the other brother.
The matter was subsequently reported to the police who visited the scene and observed a suspected gunshot wound to the left side temple and an exit wound to the right side head and the firearm was next to his hand.
A spent shell and a war head were also recovered.
The body was examined and taken to Lyken funeral home awaiting autopsy and investigations continue.
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