THE POLICE have a arrested a man for questioning in the execution-style killing of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) employee, Trevor Abrams.Reports are that the man was picked up late yesterday after the police received information saying that he may have been one of the shooters who executed the young man while he was driving along the East Bank Demerara highway on Friday.

Persons have indicated to this newspaper that the man in custody might also be a deportee, but that information is yet to be confirmed by the police.
According to information received, after the shooting on Friday morning, the vehicle in which the gunmen were travelling, and from which they launched the deadly assault was recovered by the police the following day in an East Bank Demerara village not far away from where the incident took place.
Sources close to the investigations say that after the shooting, the occupants of the car drove it into the same village in which it was recovered on Saturday and covered it up. When police arrived at the location, the car was found in the same position in which the alleged gunmen had hidden it to conceal its identity.
The person the police have detained for questioning in relation to the shooting is also said to be connected to either the car or its owner, and was also identified by persons as the possible shooter. In addition, the police have been able to recover information on the registration number of the car that was chasing the GGMC worker when he was shot, and from all indications, the same car the police uncovered carried the exact number plate they were able to recover from surveillance footage they were combing on Saturday morning.
Abrams, of Samatta Point, Grove, was shot and killed after men using what was said to be a high-powered rifle, M15 and a .32 pistol opened fire on him, causing him to sustain several gunshot wounds, and eventually run his vehicle into a nearby canal from which his lifeless body was later recovered by persons who rushed to the scene.
Well-placed police sources have linked the execution-style shooting of the 31-year-old to a similar shooting which occurred just over a week prior, resulting in the death of a city businessman. The cops have also opined that the shooting of Abrams and the businessman was also linked to the attempted execution of former policeman and member of the now defunct ‘Death Squad’, Otis Grant. Investigations into all three of the shooting are still under active police investigations.

(By Leroy Smith)