PHILIPSBURG:--- Information reaching SMN News states that the management of KPSM has taken a decision to suspend officer Rishmer York who was involved in an incident at Happy Estate Belvedere that left 22 year old Akeem Isidora dead.
According to the information SMN News received is that the Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson went along with the decision taken by the management of KPSM to suspend officer York to allow a full an transparent investigation that led to the death of Isidora whom it is said by relatives and neighbors was shot last week by officer Rishmer York a frequent visitor of Happy Estate. The mother of the late Akeem Lake said she almost got run over by the officer who fired three shots at her son who was speaking to him next to his dark tinted Kia jeep.
The woman said that York arrested her son a week before he shot him to death in the Belvedere area because he did not have his identification card on him and even though she came out with his passport York took her son to the Philipsburg Police Station. She said that York and other officers of the law were constantly harassing her son and on the day of his murder York was in Happy Estate driving around and he slowed down his vehicle and pointed his gun at her son. She said that York went as far as telling her now late son that his days are numbered before he return to the Netherlands. Several neighbors including children submitted statements at the Landsrecherche who is currently investigating the events that occured that evening prior to the brutal death of Akeem Isidora. Neighbors in Happy Estate told SMN News that York might be wearing a uniform but he is a known trouble maker with youths in the area, they said that York is a frequent visitor to Happy Estate because he frequents a female that lives in the vicinity where the murder took place last week.
The relatives of the late Akeem Isidora told SMN News last week that York and other officers were constantly harassing Akeem who returned from the Netherlands on November 14th 2014 and was scheduled to leave on March 12th. The elder Isidora said that her son was involved in a stabbing incident that left Otmar Leonard dead when he was 17 years old. She said eversince her son got out of prison police have been targeting him and that was the reason she sent him off to the Netherlands.
Efforts made by SMN News to confirm the suspension with management of KPSM proved futile while Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson could not be reached by telephone on Tuesday.
However, press Prosecutor Tineke Kamps confirmed that officer York has been suspended. She said that is not a decision of the Prosecution. As for the ongoing investigation Kamps said that York remains a suspect in the ongoing murder investigation but so far he has not been arrested.