On recent murders…
– Crime Chief
POLICE Crime Chief, Assistant Commissioner Seelall Persaud said, yesterday, that after wanted bulletins were issued for several men, including some prominent businessmen, most of them were arrested but others turned in themselves.
He said only two of those on the list remain at large, Sean Belfield and David Charran, who are still to be questioned about the three recent executions of eight persons.
Persaud said those others who secured bail were also grilled about the murders which took place at Stone Avenue, Campbellville and Broad and Adelaide Streets, also in Georgetown and Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara.
He said one man was charged with illegal gun possession and three others are in custody pending decisions on whether to charge or release them.
Previously, Persaud had indicated that the execution-style drive-by killings occurred on September 4 in Cummings Lodge; October 1 at Adelaide and Broad Streets, Charlestown and October 4 at Royal Drive and Stone Avenue, Campbellville and left a total of eight people dead.
He also revealed that the same gun was used in the Campbellville and Charlestown crimes after tests were carried out on the .45 spent shells recovered from the scenes.
However the ammunition did not match any from the Cummings Lodge crime in which five persons, including a mother and her young child, together with three men were riddled with a hail of bullets.
Among the victims were known characters, including Mark ‘Lil Mark’ Caesar; Patrick ‘Corbin’ Goodluck and Godfrey ‘Mosquito’ Grootfaam.
The others were Christopher Gordon alias ‘Bigga’, Sherwin Jerome called ‘Dice Head’, Fiona Singh, Christopher and Steve Jupiter called ‘Steve Man’.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene told a press conference the murders were drug related.
Caesar and Jupiter were in the five gunned down in Cummings Lodge on September 4.