AFTER shooting two brothers to death, the gunman, accused Cyon Collier, called ‘Picture Boy’, had told the police: “They wrong me, so they had to ‘dead!”

He made this statement orally when cautioned about the crime, a jury panel at the Demerara Assizes was told yesterday.
Then, according to a written confession, he also told the police that he had shot the brothers — Ray Walcott, called ‘Sugar, and Carl Andrews, called ‘Alo’ — because one of them had a gun for him and had refused to return same, hinting that people gon dead if anyone tries anything.
Madam Justice Diana Inanally, presiding in the trial, had conducted the voir dire in the absence of the jury, and delivered the ruling yesterday, directing that the alleged confession statement be read to the jury and be admitted in evidence.
Following the ruling, Senior State Counsel, Mrs. Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, prosecuting, directed the taker of the statement, Assistant Police Supt. Alvin Wilson, to read the statement to the jury, which he did.
The statement recorded the accused as saying to the police, on October 06, 2005, that about 3 months ago, he had brought a three eighth (.38) gun from Suriname. One night, he met Alo liming on the road, and gave him the three eighth gun to hold for him. He (the accused) went home, and when he later asked Alo to return the gun, Alo claimed that he had nothing for him.
According to the accused, the brothers would throw hints at him, and would declare nobody could try anything, or else people were going to die. Picture Boy added in his statement: “Knowing I cannot deal with three of them, I go and explain to Kusum what (was) going on between me and Alo, so that he can go and manners them for me, but instead he gave me (an) AK rifle that the police found with me at the house this morning. I then took the AK rifle, and me see Frodgeman and Barrows at a party. I borrow he motor cycle, then me go pick up the AK rifle me get from Kusum and me go to Victoria. Me reach Alo and Sugar on the corner, and me shot them because they had threatened me.”
Assistant Supt. Wilson was then cross-examined by defence counsel, Mr. Lyndon Amsterdam.
In answer to cross-examination, Mr. Wilson admitted that the voluntary statement “They wrong me so they had to dead” did not give him the impression that the accused was saying that he had killed the two men.
Witness also admitted that although other persons were in the room when the oral statement was given, none other than he, the witness, had come forward to say that they heard the oral statement.
The hearing is continuing.