TEENAGER, Keron Taylor, called Layrow, of Sussex Street, Charlestown has been arrested in connection with the execution-style killing of Sanasie Lewis, 22, on Friday morning, and the shooting of three others outside the Ghetto Flex Bar in Albouystown.On Saturday, the police expressed an interest in questioning the teenager and his brother after Lewis, of Pineapple Street, East Ruimveldt was gunned down, and the suspect turned himself over to the police in the custody of his attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes.
Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle stated that the police are also looking for another suspect, who is said to be Keron’s brother.
According to reports, it is felt that the shooting Friday was in retaliation to an earlier shooting in another community in the city last week. Sources who spoke with this publication stated that the teenager who is in police custody, as well as the one being sought, are children of a man who is no stranger to the police.
Additionally, the two young men are also known to the police, especially the one in custody, as he was picked up and held by the police in the past for several serious offences.
Meanwhile, police would have checked Taylor for evidence of gunpowder residue.
During the shooting incident on Friday morning, three other persons were injured as the gunmen opened fire at their main target, Sanasie Lewis. Those injured were identified by the police as Jamal Bascom, 23, of Independence Boulevard; Jonathan De Freitas, 20, of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara; and Kurt Francis, 16, of Princes Street, Georgetown.

Eyewitnesses at the scene told this publication that there were two gunmen who approached on foot and started firing shots in the direction of Lewis, who appeared to be the intended target. The men than reportedly fled on foot, joined a waiting car, and made good their escape.(Leroy Smith)