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Jun 12, 2010 News
– autopsy
Slain schoolboy, Kelvin Anthony Fraser, was shot in the neck at close range, an autopsy revealed yesterday.
A senior official said that the shotgun blast struck the 16-year-old in the left side of the neck.
He sustained a broken left collarbone, several broken ribs, and lasceration to the left lung. He succumbed from shock and hemorrhage.
The source said that 24 shotgun pellets, as well as wadding from the shotgun cartridge, were removed from the lad’s remains. There was no exit wound.
The postmortem was performed by forensic pathologist Dr. V. Bridgemohan and appears to dispel allegations by some eyewitnesses that Fraser was shot while fleeing.
Kaieteur News understands that the police constable who shot Fraser alleged that he accidentally discharged his firearm during a scuffle with the Patentia Secondary School student, whom he was trying to arrest.
He was still under close arrest yesterday.
Police have said that Fraser was fatally shot on Monday while ranks were responding to a report of a group of men “molesting” female students at the Patentia Secondary School.
They alleged that ranks responded and upon arrival, six youths were pointed out as the perpetrators.
On seeing the police, four of the youths ran away while two were arrested. The ranks pursued the four youths and caught up with Kelvin Fraser at Third Street, Patentia Housing Scheme, where he was shot.
Fraser was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital. Political activists have joined with the slain youth’s relatives and colleagues in protesting outside the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Brickdam Police Station to demand that the rank be charged.
On Thursday, Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, also strongly condemned the shooting, and promised that a full investigation would be conducted.
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