Relatives of a well-known attorney in Guyana who defended drug traffickers and gang members are asking police to further investigate his death.
A state pathologist has ruled that 57-year-old Vic Puran died from asphyxiation after his car veered into a canal in October. However, daughter Mikhaila Puran said she believes her father was killed and that his death was made to look like an accident.
Puran died around the same time that three of his clients were shot and killed. All were suspected gang members. Puran at the time also was defending Guyana's national security minister amid a state probe into the police killings of three demonstrators.
Deputy Police Chief Seelall Persaud today upheld the autopsy results, although he added the case has not been closed.
