On 4 November at 13:38 local time, Suriname’s West Regional Police confirmed they are conducting a full criminal probe into the suspicious death of an adult man discovered unresponsive along the Gangarampandayweg roadway at the 26-kilometer marker on the evening of the preceding Tuesday. Officers from the Groningen police station were first dispatched to the site following an anonymous public phone alert reporting a motionless individual on the roadside. When first responders arrived at the scene, they initially suspected the man was unconscious due to excessive alcohol intoxication, a common occurrence for the individual at that location according to local police records. Authorities immediately notified the man’s sister, identified only by the initials R.R., who rushed to the scene shortly after receiving the alert. Despite repeated attempts to rouse her brother, he showed no signs of life, and a on-call attending physician formally pronounced him deceased at the site. Preliminary investigative records show the man had been drinking alcohol with a group of acquaintances at a small retail shop in the Huwelijkszorg neighborhood earlier that same day, at approximately 11 a.m. Multiple passersby spotted him lying in the roadside ditch between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., but no members of the public or local patrols intervened at the time, as they assumed he was merely resting after heavy drinking, a pattern he was known to follow. A routine external examination of the corpse uncovered multiple unexplained blunt-force injuries across the man’s body, alongside a distinct, circular ligature-shaped mark wrapped around his neck. These unexpected findings prompted investigators to rule out a non-criminal accidental or alcohol-related death, and officially open a full criminal investigation into potential foul play. Forensic investigation units processed the entire roadside site for physical evidence, before the body was transported to the morgue at Paramaribo Academic Hospital. The Suriname Public Prosecutor’s Office has formally seized the corpse to authorize a full independent forensic autopsy, which will remain in official custody for the full duration of the ongoing probe. At this stage, lead investigators have not released a confirmed official cause of death, nor have they established a clear timeline for how the man sustained his external injuries or the neck ligature mark, and no suspects have been publicly identified as of the initial case announcement.