“He was a good per­son and did not de­serve this. I just hope the po­lice do not act slow­ly to bring jus­tice.”

This was the sen­ti­ment ex­pressed yes­ter­day by a close friend and room­mate of mur­dered hair­styl­ist/make-up artist/tai­lor Mar­cus An­tho­ny Singh.

Still reel­ing from find­ing Singh’s blood­ied body on Tues­day as he ar­rived home from work at the apart­ment they shared with a third per­son at Amethyst Dri­ve, El Do­ra­do - 22-year-old Ronal­do Go­sein de­scribed Singh as a “great per­son who could al­ways bring a smile to your face.”

It was around 6 pm on April 13 when Go­sein en­tered the bed­room and found Singh ly­ing face down on the floor in his un­der­wear, with wounds to the back.

A proud mem­ber of the LGT­BQIA com­mu­ni­ty, Singh was well known for ex­e­cut­ing out­stand­ing bridal pack­ages con­sist­ing of make-up and hair­styles, as well as spe­cial­ly de­signed out­fits which had gained him quite a rep­u­ta­tion.

Al­though Singh’s body was or­dered re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James around 7.30 pm on Tues­day by the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer – the au­top­sy will not be done un­til to­mor­row (Fri­day).

The two-day wait is to fa­cil­i­tate the re­turn of the COVID-19 re­sults.

Re­veal­ing he had not re­ceived any feed­back from the au­thor­i­ties up to 4 pm yes­ter­day, Go­sein said while Singh’s close rel­a­tives live in Guyana – he and a woman who was very close to Singh, would be the two wit­ness­ing the au­top­sy as the coun­try’s bor­ders re­main closed.

He said Singh did not have any en­e­mies or re­ceived threats.

“He nev­er had any grudge with any­body. I re­al­ly don’t know who would do this to him and why.”

Go­sein said Singh had al­ways been try­ing to im­prove his cho­sen craft every op­por­tu­ni­ty he got.

“I just hope the po­lice don’t for­get about this case and con­tin­ue look­ing in­to this mat­ter…and that it is not a slow process.”

Asked if he be­lieved Singh’s mur­der was a hate crime, Go­sein said no.

Mean­while, mem­bers of the pub­lic took to so­cial me­dia to ex­tend con­do­lences to Singh’s rel­a­tives and al­so urge peo­ple not to dis­crim­i­nate against per­sons from this com­mu­ni­ty.

Sasha Sams wrote, “I hope it’s not a hate crime but a crime of pas­sion or some­thing like that. We have too much go­ing on in this coun­try to start hav­ing hate crimes. I pray God have mer­cy on him.”

Bil­ly Bil­ly shared, “What­ev­er choice he made about his sex­u­al­i­ty, he was some­one’s son…this is sad, R.I.P.”