The body of the Linden man who is said to have been shot to death over an argument with his boss over stolen ganja seeds was recovered late yesterday.
The decomposing body of 21-year-old Clifton Bonus, called Motty, was pulled from the backlands of Linden next to the location of the old Mackenzie airstrip known by locals as a marijuana farm.
Reports indicate that the man, wearing just black short pants, was dumped in a gully in the bushes, after he was shot dead.
Bonus’s killer is said to be on the run from police. An eyewitness to the killing is among two persons assisting police with the investigations. The other person in custody is said to be one of the persons on the ganja farm at the time of the incident.
Bonus was missing since last Friday, and on Sunday last relatives were reportedly informed that the man had been killed.
Both relatives and police subsequently scoured the area where Bonus was reportedly killed, but came up empty handed every time.
The grueling searches came to an abrupt end sometime before 17:00 hrs,
yesterday, after his grotesquely swollen and muddied body was discovered in a shallow grave,
Informed sources indicated that a gunshot wound was visible on one of Bonus’s leg and at the side of his head.
His body was subsequently taken to the Linden Hospital Complex wrapped in a grey tarpaulin, and later to the Wismar Mortuary.
Persons who were present at the hospital when the body was taken there for examination said that persons just stood around in shock; there was no emotional outburst or anything like that.
The eyewitness is reported to have told police that Bonus and his assailant had an argument over stolen ganja seeds last Friday. The argument escalated to the point where the man is said to have shot Bonus in the chest.
The eyewitness, who was washing dishes at the time, was threatened by the assailant to leave the area, sources told Kaieteur News.  However, the eyewitness, on Sunday, decided to tell police what he saw.
Karen Lashley, the slain man’s mother, had said she last saw her son two Mondays ago. Clifton Bonus, her only son, reportedly lived with her at Silvertown, until he moved out and went to live with the mother of his child at Nottinghamshire. The mother of his child is said to be his killer’s sister.
He reportedly worked with the woman’s brother.
Lashley said she did not know where her son worked or the nature of his job.
Karen Lashley told media operatives that when she  visited the suspect mother’s house, where her son resided until recently, one of the suspect’s  brothers blurted out, “Mommy tell the lady wha you son do she son, tell she is you own son kill she son!”