Security guard found with throat slit
The body of a 49-year-old security guard was found early yesterday on a makeshift bench at the victim’s employment site on Robb Street, Georgetown, with the throat slit.
Samuel Prowell’s (inset) body was found on this makeshift bench.
The dead man has been identified has Samuel Prowell called “Sammy,” a father of three, of 12 Mocha, East Bank Demerara.
The security guard’s body was discovered at 05:45 hrs in front of the store he was securing, Hai Matadi Ishant Variety Store at 16 Robb Street, Georgetown.
The police suspect that the victim might have been killed by a drug addict who he might have annoyed, as he (victim) had been chasing destitutes from the area since he started working at the store three months ago.
Prowell’s bicycle was missing from the scene and it is believed that his killer(s) might have escaped with it.
Mark Samuels, Operations Manager of the private security firm with which the man was employed, said that Prowell was aggressive and got into several arguments with drug addicts and vagrants who would usually be in the area.
Samuel said that he tried talking to Prowell and advised that he be friendly with the people in the area, since it was lonely. “He would come over very aggressive and I talked to him many times about this. This murder has to be vendetta-driven.”
Meanwhile, when this newspaper visited the victim’s home yesterday, neighbours said that he lived alone in a dilapidated shack.
He was last seen alive Wednesday morning when he left to go to work.
His niece, Candia Shepard said that she was at home when someone called and informed her that her uncle had been murdered.
“Right away I called my sister to come and pick me up and we went to the scene we didn’t get to see him, because they had already moved the body. There was a table and cardboard… and newspaper with blood were on it” the woman explained.
She added that while at the scene, she received a call from the deceased man’s brother who informed her that he had gone to the Georgetown Public Hospital and identified Prowell’s body.
Up to late yesterday, investigators were checking the area for surveillance cameras, hoping that the image of the security guard’s killer(s) has been captured on CCTV.
While there is a camera in close proximity to the murder, it has been confirmed that the camera was not working.
Investigations are ongoing.