A SECOND suspect appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with the December 7, 2020 murder of Peter Gonsalves and was remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

Daniel Paris, 25, of ‘D’ Field, Sophia, Turkeyen, was not required to plead to the indictable charge.

It is alleged that while in the company of another, at Garnett Street, Kitty, Georgetown, he murdered Gonsalves in the course or furtherance of a robbery.

According to particulars of the charge, on the day in question around 21:00hrs, Gonsalves, along with his co-worker, was at a bar located at Garnett Street, Kitty, Georgetown, when Paris and his accomplice, who were both armed, opened fire in their direction.

After firing shots, the two assailants then escaped on Gonsalves’ XR motorcycle, CJ600.
Gonsalves was hit several times and later succumbed to the gunshot injuries, while his co-worker escaped unharmed.

Police subsequently collected CCTV footage from the bar and Paris was recently arrested and charged for the offence.

Kacey Heyliger was the first person to be charged. He made his first court appearance on December 11, 2020. Heyliger, 28, of Shell Road, Kitty, had been released from prison one year earlier after being freed of another murder charge.

Paris will make his second court appearance on March 1, 2021.