Man found dead near New Grant home after medical episode

KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

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A 26-year-old man was found dead in bush­es near his home in New Grant, Princes Town, on Mon­day af­ter rel­a­tives raised con­cern about his con­di­tion.

David Ram­lakhan, of School Trace, was dis­cov­ered by po­lice around 5.25 pm af­ter a rel­a­tive con­tact­ed the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion re­port­ing that he ap­peared to be in phys­i­cal dis­tress. Of­fi­cers were led about 200 feet off the road­way to an over­grown area where he was found ly­ing mo­tion­less with scratch­es to his face and low­er ab­domen.

A Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer lat­er pro­nounced him dead at the scene. His body was re­moved pend­ing a post-mortem at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Ram­lakhan had ear­li­er been found in dis­tress by a rel­a­tive, who at­tempt­ed to get med­ical help. He was a psy­chi­atric pa­tient at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and suf­fered from epilep­tic seizures.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.