STAFREI Hopkinson Alexander, who escaped from the Mackenzie Police Station December last and was wanted for the murder of a Linden woman, was apprehended yesterday morning during a checkpoint search at the Kupakari Crossing, Rupununi.

The police said yesterday that Alexander of Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was in a vehicle at the checkpoint.
A wanted bulletin had been issued for Alexander and Robin Maxwell Thomas who were charged with the murder of Shevon Gordon, which occurred at Wismar on April 4, 2015. They had escaped from the Mackenzie Police Station on December 8, 2015.
Hopkinson and Thomas reportedly escaped by smashing a hole through a cell wall. The suspects, along with Aiden Bowen, of Blueberry Hill, Wismar, were charged for the April 4, 2015 murder of the businesswoman who was shot near her One Mile, Linden premises.
Aidien Bowen, their alleged accomplice, was in the same cell at the time.
Stafrei Hopkinson, 30, was November last arrested and charged with Gordon’s murder. He was also slapped with several armed robbery charges.
The slain woman’s husband, Fitzroy Elon Gordon, described the escape as “a set up”, and expressed concern for the safety of his son, who is the key witness in the matter.

Shevon Gordon was shot after she resisted two armed bandits who had accosted her after she stepped out of her truck. She was also relieved of a bag containing money. The businesswoman was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Linden Hospital complex.
Meanwhile, in the latter part of December, 2015 the body of Robin Maxwell Thomas was fished out of the Demerara River. Officials said that Thomas’s badly decomposed corpse was found in the vicinity of West Watooka, near the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge.
But he was only positively identified after detectives matched the victim’s thumbprint to prints of Thomas they have on record. A post-mortem indicating that he was murdered. The post-mortem revealed that Thomas sustained blunt trauma to the head and that his skull was fractured.