Police release more video footage of suspect

THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday released more video footage of the suspect in the fatal shooting of Delicious Chinese Restaurant cashier on D’Urban Street, Georgetown, in an effort to have the gunman identified.

The police, in a brief statement, has said they are seeking assistance in identifying the man in the video footage wearing a black and red cap.

The video showed a man dressed in a greyish jersey and cap at the cashier’s cage apparently making a purchase, since he had submitted a note and while there two other male customers entered the restaurant.

In an earlier publication in this newspaper, the GPF had appealed to citizens seeking assistance with information which would have aided the investigation.

Crime Chief Leslie James had disclosed that since they issued a wanted bulletin for a suspect on September 6, 2014, they had arrested more than two persons, who were later released; as such, they are seeking information from members of the public.

He said, “There is always someone out there who saw or know something which I believe will aid in the probe and we ask that they assist us in bringing the perpetrator to justice.”

The GPF in a press release on September 6 said they are seeking the assistance of members of the public in identifying the person whose image is displayed below.
The images show the young man at the cashier counter in a brief conversation with Blackman just before he pulled out a gun, pushed his hand through the grillwork at the cashier’s cage and fatally shot her.
Debra Blackman, 54, was in the cashier’s cage at her place of work, Delicious Chinese Restaurant on D’urban Street, Georgetown, when two men arrived on a Jialing motorcycle and one of them entered the restaurant; shortly after, there was a loud explosion and the man who entered the restaurant was seen running to the very motorcycle before it sped off.

During Blackman’s 14 years of service to the eating house, there had been several armed robberies there. No motive for the killing has as yet been established, since no cash was taken that day when the gunman entered the restaurant and fatally shot her.