Wanted man surrenders over baby killing
Dead: Arianne Gill
Dead: Arianne Gill

MARC Angoy of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara turned himself in to the police yesterday morning at the Grove Police Station following the wanted bulletin in relation to the murder of 13-month-old Arianne Gill who was shot and killed on Sunday in her home at Eastville Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara.According to reports, the suspect was accompanied by a lawyer when he turned himself in to the police.

Murder Accuse: Marc Angoy
Murder Accuse: Marc Angoy

The baby, who sustained a single gunshot wound in the region of her shoulder on Sunday, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital.
Her aunt, 12-year old Ashley Wellington, is currently receiving treatment at the same medical institution for gunshot wounds to her leg and thigh.
However, the baby’s grandmother, 35-year-old Shelly Northon, who had recently severed an abusive relationship with the 45-year-old suspect, was not harmed during the attack.
Northon told this publication that since the story went public, she has received several death threats from Angoy, who boldly contacted her son yesterday via text message, saying how upset he was at what had been reported.
Northon called on the police yesterday for protection, since she had received a cell-phone call from Angoy stating that “I was blaming him, and that I will soon see the real thing.” Her injured daughter, 12-year-old Ashley, told this publication that she, too, is scared.
Angoy, against whom the court had granted a restraining order, paid Northon a visit on Sunday at her home at Annandale, East Coast Demerara, to make good on a promise that he would get back at her for leaving him.
After the deadly deed was done, he reportedly fled the scene in a blue motorcar. Northon said that after being in an abusive relationship with him for three long years, she finally called it quits two months ago. But according to her, Angoy was having none of it, and reportedly told her that leaving him would be the biggest mistake she would ever make.
“I left him because of abuse in every way possible: Physical, mental, verbal, and emotional, every way possible,” she told the Guyana Chronicle on Sunday. She said the reason Angoy targeted those two particular children was because he knew how much she loved them; how close they both were to her heart. “I normally call her ‘Princess’, and he know I care a lot for these two…” Northon said, adding: “We tried patching up the relationship many times before, but he is very abusive. He even smoked cocaine in the house, and because of his behaviour towards me, my children could not stand it and they moved out.”
Looking back, she said yesterday: “I guess I’ll now have to live with the grief of making a major mistake by allowing the abuse that later ended in the murder of my grand-daughter.”
A former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Angoy, who previously operated a business in the interior, was previously incarcerated for murder but later acquitted. He was charged in 1998 for the murder of a man at Twelve-and-a-Half-Miles Issano, Mazaruni, Region 7. In addition, he was arrested several times, both as a teenager and an adult, for robbery under arms.

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