{"id":312812,"date":"2023-11-28T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=312812"},"modified":"2023-11-29T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:47:38","slug":"man-found-dead-at-his-home-in-mero-police-are-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/death\/man-found-dead-at-his-home-in-mero-police-are-investigating\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Man found dead at his home in Mero; police are investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ronald Astaphan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Police have officially identified a resident of Mero who was found dead at his home on Tuesday, as businessman Hugo Anthony Ronald Astaphan Jr.<\/p>\n

According to Police Inspector Fixton Henderson, on Tuesday 28th November 2023 at about 11:30am Astaphan was found dead on his bed at his home at Cuba Road, Mero. He said the \u00a052-year-old sustained an apparent gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

He was examined and pronounced dead by a medical doctor\u00a0 at the scene.<\/p>\n

His body is being kept at a funeral home pending an autopsy.<\/p>\n

Henderson said the police investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Astaphan, continues and on behalf of the \u00a0Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force, extended condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.<\/p>\n

Dominica News Online (DNO) also expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of Astaphan.<\/p>\n

Astaphan was the former proprietor of Guiyave restaurant in Roseau which shut down in July, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have officially identified a resident of Mero who was found dead at his home on Tuesday, as businessman Hugo Anthony Ronald Astaphan Jr. According to Police Inspector Fixton Henderson, on Tuesday 28th November 2023 at about 11:30am Astaphan was…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":312819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,301,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-court-law","category-death","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUpdate: Man found dead at his home in Mero; police are investigating - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/death\/man-found-dead-at-his-home-in-mero-police-are-investigating\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Update: Man found dead at his home in Mero; 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