THE police disclosed yesterday that they have arrested a suspect for the murder of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, at her Lot 42 Robb Street, Georgetown home.
The septuagenarian was assassinated last June 30 and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that the man in custody, pending further investigations, will be charged shortly.
The elderly woman was killed at about 19:45 hrs by one of two men, in the presence of her brother and another relative, as she emerged from her bedroom that fateful night.
The victim was shot several times about the body and pronounced dead on arrival when taken to Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after the shooter and his accomplice escaped in a waiting motor car.
Brother of the deceased, Fitzroy Fiedtkou, 74, recalled that he had been sitting on her steps while their uncle was lying on the sofa in the living room at Lot 42 Robb Street, when two young men came up the stairs and asked for ‘Aunty’.
When she came out of her bedroom, one of the men discharged six shots at her and ran from the building.
She collapsed on the sofa where her uncle was lying and started to bleed profusely.
Her sibling said he had gone to her house to watch the ‘Oprah Show’ and was on the steps when the assailants ascended and ordered him to remove as he was blocking their path. One of them even assisted him up and he was standing right behind them when they shot and killed his sister.
Fitzroy Fiedtkou lamented: “I was right there when they murdered my sister and, after they killed her, I grabbed the arm of one of the youths but he cuffed me in the chest and I fell.”
He remembered that the two youths, who were no more than 25 years old, just asked for ‘Aunty’ before killing her.
Holding back tears, Fiedtkou said his sibling was shot six times, three in the back, one under the arm and two in the stomach, causing her to collapse and die in her own home.
He said there was no family problem but a woman took his sister to court, claiming the property where she lived and the case was still pending.
A July 5 post mortem examination on the body of Fiedtkou-Parris determined that death resulted from perforation of the lungs due to gunshot wounds.