Mother of dead teen calls out Police for slothfulness in investigations

15-year-old’s fatal shooting

– best friend granted $100,000 bail

Almost one week after 15-year-old Rockey Sawh was shot and killed by his best friend at close range, his family is dissatisfied with the manner in which the authorities are dealing with the matter.

The teenager was accidentally shot to the head by the suspect, thus resulting in him suffering severe brain damage. He died a few hours after receiving the gunshot injury.
However, in an interview with Guyana Times on Monday, the dead teen’s mother, Amrita Panday vented her frustration at the slothfulness of the police in dealing with the investigation. What is even more surprising, the distressed mother added, was the fact that the teen who killed her son was granted bail.
The teen was granted bail on Friday after he appeared before a city Magistrate. Nevertheless, the woman is holding out that the police are yet to inform her and family members of what really transpired on the fateful night when her son went on a sleepover.

“When I saw it on my phone last night, I broke down in tears because nobody called and say nothing to me, I just see it on the Facebook that the boy is getting $100,000 bail. This is really wrong because I am not hearing nothing from these people. If you ask question, they are not talking you,” the woman said.
Panday said she made several visits to the police station during the investigations and the officers ignored her.
“When I was talking to them [the police], they were walking away like you don’t exist, and like my son Rockey was never here. The people [family of the suspect] took a lawyer from the beginning …then they had something to say with my son’s death because they don’t know what it is and they done jump to lawyer,” the grieving mother recalled.
The dead teen’s mother stated that the parents of the teen who committed the act to date have not reached out to them to offer their condolences. “They did not even show any remorse or sympathy,” the woman added.
She said given that the two boys shared such a strong bond, she had expected the family to at least reach out to her family.
“I wasn’t supposed to be seeing my son like that. I actually supposed to be seeing him go out in a long pants to school, but instead I saw my son lie down in a black down pants, going his way,” she said.
The woman demanded justice for her son but at the same time, she needs answers.
Meanwhile, Police said that Sawh and his 16-year-old best friend had just finished a meal on Wednesday evening last when the teen suspect breached the lock of a secured wardrobe where a licensed .32 Taurus pistol owned by his father was secured.
After retrieving the gun, the teen showed it to Sawh and accidentally pulled the trigger.
As a result, Sawh was shot to the right side of his head and fell to the ground. He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was admitted in serious condition. He died at about 17:00h on Wednesday.