THE young man whom the police have arrested along with his associate for the shooting death of Lusignan cosmetologist, Ashmini Hariram, once provided information to the police on several robberies and other illegal activities in and around the city that led to prosecution of suspects.

This newspaper was able to confirm this by speaking with several persons who are familiar with the shooter, who goes by the alias “Two Colours.”
“Two Colours” and his associate, Melroy Doris have been on the police radar for sometime in connection with the murder, after the police received classified information that they were the persons who had carried out the hit on the hairdresser.
Police sources told this newspaper that while the men could have been brought to justice earlier, there were several other things pertaining to the investigation that the police were working on and were looking to have in place before they were arrested.
It was also stated that after intense intelligence-gathering and the police had all the proof needed to bring the men in, they were arrested and the allegations read to them; they unhesitatingly confessed.
The men even detailed to the investigators how it all went down. Meanwhile, police sources who spoke with this publication have confirmed that they are seeking to see if the death of the teenager is linked to the drug bust in another part of the country days before her murder. The priority for the police however was, and remains solving the crime of murder which was committed by the duo.
The police source said that the force is convinced that the entire affair with respect to the suspected drug operation and all its links will be unravel at the right time; and the agencies which are tasked with dealing with those matters are ready to address same.
Meanwhile, the two persons who have been detained for allegedly hiring the gunman and the driver are still in police custody, according to well-placed sources. The source informed this newspaper that the two will have to report to the police station every week; even as arrangements have already been put in place to ensure that they do not skip the country.
One of the men is said to have a business along the East Bank of Demerara, while the other lives on the East Coast.
During video-recorded confessions to the police of the teenager’s slaying, the two main suspects told investigators that they were hired by the brother-in-law of the teen and another man to take out the woman and seize her phone. They further stated that the hit was to be done for a price tag of $2.5 Million Guyana dollars, a sum they were unable to collect up to the time of their arrest last week.