POLICE TO INVESTIGATE MURDER OF FATHER & SON AT VENEZUELAN BORDER Days after Orlando Fitzpatrick, 52, also called “Jim” and his son, 17 year old Jesse Fitzpatrick called “Jes” of Lot 160 3rd Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara were brutally murdered close to the Venezuelan border, local law enforcement officers have left to form an investigation. The shooting incident reportedly occurred on Thursday evening last. A team of police ranks left Georgetown on Sunday morning for a place called “Curisina” located miles from the Venezuela/Guyana borders but in Guyanese territory. The bodies of the teenager and his father are still with Venezuelan authorities but relatives are completing all legal documents to have the bodies returned to Guyanese shores. Attempts to make contact with the Janice Fitzpatrick, sister of Orlando who resides in Venezuela proved futile. Nevertheless, at the home of the dead man, his Marlyn Allick stated that she last spoke with him on Thursday evening at about 18:30h when he telephoned to inform her that he and his son were on their way home, but they never made it home.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 18:26:16 +0000