Demerara Assize’s jury told… : Murder accused was shooting like in motion picture

THE mixed jury sitting in the Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ murder case heard, on Monday, that the scene at Victoria Four Corner, East Coast Demerara, on September 23, 2006, was likened to a motion picture as the accused, dressed in black with a gun slung across his back, rode up on a motorcycle and began shooting. Two brothers, Ray Walcott called ‘Sugar’, 34, and his  younger brother, Carl Andrews alias ‘Aloo’, 31, were gunned down during that early morning furore.
Following the shooting, the shooter stopped a bus and moved away from the scene, Senior State Counsel Judith Gildharie-Mursalin related in her opening address to the jurors.
She said sometime during the early hours of the September 23 morning, a group of young men were playing dominoes at the Victoria Four Corner.
On his arrival at the scene, Collier began ‘gaffing’ with the domino players but evidence will be led to show that he began cranking the gun and commenced shooting.   
The prosecutor said everyone scattered, running off in different directions but Collier ran after Andrews, still shooting.
When the firing stopped, the two brothers were found with what appeared to be bullet holes on their bodies. Walcott was lying on the road and Andrews was found in a nearby yard. They were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where they were pronounced dead.
After the shooting, Collier, still armed, stopped a bus and ordered the passengers out of the front seat. The driver, who knew him, told him to cool it and explained that he would take him wherever he wanted to go.

Spent shells
Collier dropped off at Factory Road, Paradise, also on East Coast Demerara and police  recovered spent shells from the scene of the shooting and those were submitted to the ballistics expert for analysis, the prosecutor said.         
She said, two days after the killing, Government Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh  performed post mortems on the bodies of the deceased and found that Walcott had suffered seven gunshot injuries and gave his cause of death as multiple gunshots.
Andrews had three bullet wounds and he died as a result of perforation of the lung due to gunshots.
On October 5, 2006, based on information received, army ranks went to a house at Bachelor’s Adventure at 05:00 hrs where they found Collier and three weapons were recovered, including an AK-47 assault rifle with 13  matching rounds of ammunition.
The weapon was handed over to the ballistics expert who examined same and carried out tests after which he concluded that the spent shells found at the murder scene were fired from the same AK-47 found with Collier, Gildharie-Mursalin said.

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