SEVERAL persons are now in police custody as investigations continue into the Emancipation Day execution of Laing Avenue resident, Orin David.‘A’ Division Commander, Clifton Hicken told the Guyana Chronicle that the police conducted several raids in the city and its environs and that exercise netted several persons of interest, including some known suspects.

An identification parade was held on Wednesday, but the outcome was not disclosed.

David, called “Plait Hair,” was riddled with bullets by a group of men on Monday afternoon outside his Lot 89 Laing Avenue, Georgetown home after a row with a friend, who reportedly owed him some money.

On Tuesday, the police arrested a suspect and impounded his car.

The police reported that David was killed at about 15:55 hrs on Monday by four identifiable men.

Investigations revealed that David, 32, had an argument with one of the suspects earlier over bail money and the suspect left and returned with the others. As the victim was approaching a vehicle in which the suspects were , several shots were fired.

David was taken to the GPHC where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

One empty 12-gauge shotgun cartridge and a .32 spent shell were found at the scene.

In February 2015, David was freed after being imprisoned for five years for the alleged 2010 murder of Mahaica farmer Lakhram Bishundial.

Bishundial was fatally shot during a robbery at Hope Turn, East Coast Demerara.

He was on his way home from a city bank after he had withdrawn money for his younger siblings’ wedding, when he was robbed and killed by two men.

Subsequently, David and another person identified as Shawn Thom, were charged for the murder. Thom was freed a week before David.

David was well known to the police, because he had had several brushes with the law, including a charge for possession of an unlicensed firearm.