16 year old Kelvin Fraser who was slain by Guyana Police on June 7, 2010
NEW YORK: The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy on Saturday harshly condemned the unjustified shooting to death of an innocent sixteen year-old Guyanese school boy by the Guyana Police Force, and has, in an urgent letter to United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called on the Obama Administration to “suspend bilateral security assistance to the Guyana Police Force.”
In a strongly worded statement issued by Director of Communications, Jevon Suralie, the Institute said that “On Monday June 7, 2010 Police officers from the Wales Police Station shot and killed Kelvin Fraser, a fourth form student of the Patentia Secondary School, without justification. The officers who killed Kelvin Fraser are from the same division as the officers who last year doused the pelvic area of another minor, fifteen year old Twyon Thomas, with a flammable substance and set his genitals afire and further tortured the teen,” CGID said.
Reports are that the Police officers may have been responding to a report of disorderly conduct by a group of students at Fraser’s school. When the officers arrived, students ostensibly started running and Fraser, who was allegedly unaware of the situation, saw the commotion and began running as well. It was at this point that a rank, armed with a shot gun, caught up to him and opened fire. The lad, who was shot at point blank range, then fell into a muddy ditch.
The child was later removed from the ditch and placed into a vehicle, where he was left to bleed to death, while officers continued to pursue other students. Fraser, who died at the scene, was only transported to the West Demerara Regional Hospital after the Police concluded their investigations at the school, several hours after he was shot. He was pronounced dead on arrival. Read the rest of this entry »
