Bodies in hotel parking lot: Tests confirm duo ingested cyanide

Two months after two friends were found dead in a vehicle parked in the compound of the Marriott Hotel at Kingston, Georgetown, test results have confirmed that the duo had ingested cyanide.

During the wee hours of April 23, 2022, the bodies of 25-year-old Paishnarine ‘Richie’ Hansraj and 34-year-old Justin Teixeira were found in a car in the Marriott Hotel parking lot in Kingston, Georgetown.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) revealed on Wednesday that toxicology results confirmed that the duo had consumed cyanide, which resulted in their demise. The tests were conducted at NMS Labs in Texas, United States, and revealed that both men had a significant concentration of cyanide in their bodies.
The tests supported what Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn had indicated earlier last month, after a container with cyanide was found in the vehicle in which the duo was found.
It was reported that an employee of the Marriott Hotel reported that they received a phone call from a relative of Teixeira on the evening of April 22 at about 23:30h, informing them that he was suffering from a seizure, and asking for someone to check on him in his room.
Another employee was sent to Teixeira’s room on the sixth floor, but it was empty. The hotel staff then went to Teixeira’s vehicle – a black Vezel motor car (PAC 2607) – in the parking lot, and the gruesome discovery was made.
Teixeira was reportedly sitting in the driver’s seat, and all the windows of the vehicle were halfway down. The employee said he opened the front passenger door and discovered Hansraj sitting in a crunch-like position.
Both the Police via 911 and an ambulance with an EMT were summoned to the scene, where the two men were pronounced dead by a doctor. The Police stated no marks of violence were seen on the exposed parts of the two bodies. (G9)