HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A 29-year-old man was arrested, suspected of murdering a man whose lifeless body was found in Sånta Rita-Sumai on Sunday.
On Tuesday, the Guam Police Department announced the arrest of Jamie John Nededog in connection to the discovery of a body on Sunday afternoon.
GPD spokesperson Officer Berlyn Savella said in a press release that the lifeless body of a 54-year-old man was discovered near the Atantano Shrine in Sånta Rita-Sumai with several injuries to his face consistent with blunt force trauma.
The Criminal Investigation Division was then activated and started an investigation, while Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jeffrey Nine conducted an on-scene assessment. An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday morning.
During their investigation, detectives were able to identify the victim, whose identity is being withheld pending the location of next of kin.
“The investigation revealed that a vehicle the victim was reportedly operating, described as a dark gray 2012 Toyota pickup, was unaccounted for,” Savella said Monday while discussing the discoveries made.
“Detectives made checks for witnesses and surveillance footage in the southern Guam area, where detectives learned that a male, identified as Jamie Nededog, had spoken about a pickup with blood inside it,” Savella added.
Once Nededog was located, detectives were able to find the truck, which had evidence of suspected blood inside and was parked unattended by Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church and school area.
Nededog was subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder, reckless conduct, theft of property, use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony, disinterring a corpse, destroying evidence, theft of a motor vehicle and aggravated assault.
Nededog has since been booked and confined at the Department of Corrections, and details of his arrest have been forwarded to the Office of the Attorney General.
The investigation into the death remains open, Savella said.
Record
Prison records show Nededog was previously arrested and held in prison in August 2020 on suspicion of terrorizing.
According to Post files, Nededog, who was 26 at the time, was accused of pointing a handgun out of the driver’s side window of a vehicle and threatening to shoot and kill the victim.
He was released the following month after being charged in the Superior Court of Guam.
Jamie John Nededog
