Photo of prime suspect supplied to police

– every lead will be followed, police assure

THE relatives of murdered mason, Mark London, of Kaneville who was murdered during a failed robbery yesterday supplied the police with the name and photograph of the man who eyewitnesses said shot the young man.The mother, siblings and other relatives met with ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken and several other senior ranks of the division who paid a visit to the home.

Hicken promised the family that all leads will be followed and no stone left unturned in finding the suspect providing the information reaches the police. Relatives told the police that the main suspect, whose photo they supplied, has fled to Linden where according to them he has been spotted several times.
The mother of the young man, Yvette London, told the commander that she was very hurt by what had happened to her son.
Meanwhile speaking with the media, Kelan Roger-Beet, the friend who was with London when he was shot, recalled what happened on the morning of August 14 in Kaneville.

He said that London visited him early the morning and they were heading to another friend when they passed the suspect at the corner. Beet said that it was the first time he noticed the young man. He said that while they were returning, he observed that the man was still at the same spot and they passed him straight with no one saying anything to him.
As they approached an area where they would have turned into a yard, the suspect came up to London and ordered: “Pass the thing” and immediately fired a shot at London which missed his feet. The two men then began running away from the gunman who continued to discharge several shots in their direction.

Beet also recalled that the first time he had seen the suspect was the Saturday before the incident when the same person was involved in an altercation with his (Beet) cousin’s boyfriend.
After the shooting the family related to the police that the very suspect who was identified by Beet at the time of the crime was involved in an argument with the cousin’s boyfriend.
The cousin’s boyfriend was then invited to the police station where he was able to provide police with the name of the man who did the shooting and confirmed that he was the same person who he had an argument with days before the shooting.
It is not clear if the argument that the two men had might have been related to whatever “thing” the gunman approached London and demanded. When London was shot he was left lying with his gold chain and mobile phone intact.
After the police were given the name of the suspect the relatives searched for the young man on Facebook and when his photos were shown to both the man he had the argument with and the man who was walking with London when he was shot, both of them positively identified him as the person they had encountered days apart.