GEORGETOWN, Guyana- A 49-year-old woman Monday committed suicide at the Brickdam Police Station in Georgetown following a domestic dispute.
Police said that Trudy DeHaarte, an Animal Inspector with the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, had earlier been confronting her husband, a taxi driver, and her son.
In a statement, the police said that DeHaarte had taken an object wrapped in a yellow cloth and hit her husband’s motorcar. The man then drove to the Brickdam Police Station to report, and DeHaarte followed him.
Upon her arrival at the station, the woman is reported to have told her husband, “this is what you want,” before shooting herself. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Government Medical Officer Dr. Narine.
“The woman, up to the time of her death, was receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Psychiatric clinic,” the police said.
Police said the weapon used by the victim was a stun gun, which she had in her possession and used during her job as an animal inspector.
Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn, who visited the scene, said it was a miserable situation that the police would thoroughly investigate.
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