Federal Management Security officer killed in early morning accident

A security officer attached to the Federal Management Security system was on Sunday morning killed when the car in which he was travelling ended up in a trench at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, after the driver lost control.
Dead is 47-year-old Garfield McPherson. The accident occurred at sometime around 06:20h.
Based on reports received, the driver, a 28-year-old resident of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, was heading to Georgetown, and in the vicinity of Land of Canaan, he reportedly swerved to avoid a collision with another vehicle, but instead lost control of the vehicle he was driving and drove into a trench.
This driver, along with McPherson and another passenger, Diana Mc Garrel, 28, of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, was pulled from the vehicle and rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where McPherson was pronounced on arrival.
Mc Garrel and the driver were up to late Sunday evening receiving medical attention, and the Police have begun to investigate the matter. In a press statement earlier in the day, the Police stated that Mc Garrel was killed instead of McPherson, and as such, the Force apologises for this mistake.