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The government of the Gambia has demanded a “strict, credible and objective investigation” of the encounter of one of its citizens – the son of a retired diplomat of police in the United States.
The victim’s name was Momodou Lamin Sisay and he was shot after a car chase in the town of Snellville, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). He was declared dead at the scene.
The 39-year-old victim was the son of Lare Sisay, a Gambian diplomat who also served for the United Nations Development Programme, who according to some people lived in the nearby town of Lithonia.
Gambia’s foreign affairs ministry gave a statement “asked the Gambian Embassy in Washington DC to employ the US authorities along with the State Department to demand a right and truthful probe.
Lare Sisay, as saying he was suppressing judgment on the incident leaving results of a postmortem and findings from a private investigator while referring to his son as “somebody who despises violence”.
Data source: Ministry of Gambia
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