– Hitmen reportedly paid $2.5M by brother-in-law and accomplice for contract killing

INVESTIGATORS have cracked the case of the murder of Lusignan cosmetologist, 18-year-old Ashmini Hariram wide open and all the persons who had a hand in her murder are now in police custody.On Wednesday the police were able to pick up two men in Georgetown who confessed to the crime – one being the driver of the getaway car and the other the triggerman, both of whom led investigators to the persons who hired them to carry out the hit on the relative of one of the men.
The information reaching this publication states that the taxi driver was hired to transport the gunman to Lusignan on the East Coast where they were being updated by the victim’s brother-in-law about her movements. And following those directions the suspects were able to locate their victim and neutralise her speedily before fleeing the area.

MOTIVE
The men in their statements told investigators that they were hired by the woman’s brother-in-law and another man who were convinced that the teenager was the one responsible for law enforcement officers seizing a large quantity of their drugs earlier this year.
When the two were hired they were given the facts surrounding the seizure and the need for them to get the job done. They were instructed by the relative and the other man to kill the woman and take possession of her mobile phone. The persons who hired the two wanted to search her phone to see who the woman was in contact with and who she may have informed of the shipment of the drugs.
This newspaper was told that one of the men being accused of hiring the driver and triggerman was in the past arrested by law enforcement for drug-related activities.
On the day of the murder of Ashmini Hariram, the driver of the vehicle which was used to transport the gunman was in contact with his handlers. They then approached the victim and her friend as they were walking and carried out the act after the driver pointed out the girl to the triggerman according to the clothes she was wearing.
Investigators were reportedly told that when the victim was pointed out to the triggerman by the driver, he exited the car, aimed the gun to the teenager’s head and shot her before grabbing her phone. Many persons in the area had suggested that the killing was a robbery since the girl’s phone was snatched even as others asked why her friend was totally ignored by the gunman.
The suspects then travelled back to the city and made contact with the person who had put the contract out and turned over the mobile phone to him. This newspaper was also informed that after the phone would have been examined, there were to be follow-up killings in relation to the very drug seizure. It is not clear why this aspect of the organised crime saga has not yet been executed.
Meanwhile, the files on the gunman and the taxi driver are being prepared to be sent to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice even as the brother-in-law of the cosmetologist and his accomplice are in police custody assisting with the investigations.
Ashmini-Hariram was killed on July 10 and her relatives up until Wednesday were still trying to come to grips with the murder as they puzzle over the motives for what they had described as the senseless killing of the teenager. Now that the details of the incident are emerging it is not clear how family members are treating with the developments.