POLICE are awaiting legal advice on the Orange Walk, Bourda, fatal shooting in which Shawn Nelson was killed on May 26. Crime Chief Seelall Persaud confirmed yesterday.
The 39-year-old man, of Joseph Pollydore Street, also in Georgetown, succumbed to a gunshot wound in his head.
He was walking on his way to work when he was shot by a man who disembarked a motorcar and fired at him.
Nelson was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he died.
The suspected shooter, identified in video footage from a surveillance camera at a nearby business place, turned himself in to Police and remains in custody.
A post mortem performed yesterday proved that Nelson’s caused of death was shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injury.
The suspect, said to be a well-known member of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), fled the murder scene and crashed the motor car he was driving into a utility pole.
Reports about the killing said, about 06:30 hrs on Sunday, Nelson, who was employed at Eagles Bar on Robb Street, was involved in an argument with a man in Orange Walk, when he was killed.
Meanwhile, the two women and a man are still in Police custody following the stabbing to death of ex-policeman Adrian Richmond at a dog fighting venue, on Sunday, too.
Persaud said they are also awaiting advice on that crime.
Police said Richmond, 31, of Atlantic Ville, was stabbed about 18:30 hrs at Industry Front Access Road, also on East Coast Demerara.
Investigations have, so far, revealed that he became involved in an argument with three men, over the results of a fight between dogs and he was wounded with an ice-pick.
He also died at the GPHC.