CHIEF Magistrate Ann McLennon on Tuesday remanded two men to prison over the fatal shooting and robbery of 41-year-old businessman Shimron Adams on Boxing Day.

The alleged mastermind, Andrew Ridley called “Aids Man ” of Campbell Street, Albouystown, and his alleged accomplice, Akelow Marshall of Independence Boulevard, East La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The men were not required to plead to the capital offence which alleged that on December 26, 2022, at D’Urban and Chapel Streets,Lodge, Georgetown, they murdered Adams during the course or furtherance of a robbery.

They were remanded to prison until February 2, 2023.

The Guyana Chronicle was made to understand that the victim’s girlfriend reportedly shared a relationship with Ridley. It is alleged that the woman was at her lover’s business at D’Urban and Chapel Streets, Lodge, Georgetown, during the robbery/murder.

Around 23:40hrs on the day in question, two masked men, one armed with a handgun, stormed the business premises.

The said business place is fitted with a zinc shutter to the northern side (front) and has CCTV cameras.

The victim’s 29-year-old girlfriend told police investigators that at the time, Adams had a gold finger ring and one gold band with a small bag hanging on his shoulder.

She recalled that he started closing the business place around 23:30hrs and opened the shutter for them to exit the bottom flat.

“At that point, two suspects entered the building through the said shutter and ordered them to lie on the ground and they complied. The unarmed suspect then took off the businessman’s jewellery and ordered him to get up, which he did. The suspect then held onto the businessman’s shoulder bag and pulled at it, but Adams continued to hold on to the bag to prevent the suspect from taking it. The suspect, who was armed with the firearm, discharged a round at Adams, which struck him to his right abdomen and exited through his right side in the vicinity of his groin,” the police said in a report.

The businessman then released the bag and fell helplessly to the ground, while bleeding from the gunshot wound.

The suspect reportedly removed the shoulder bag, picked up the businessman’s phone and the cellphone from his girlfriend, and made good his escape through the shutter.

The businessman was picked up by ranks from an anti-crime patrol and escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

CCTV cameras captured when the suspects went to the said business place and left on a black and white XR motorcycle.

Ridley was later arrested by the police with the firearm at his home. Marshall was arrested in Berbice.

Ridley is also a suspect in the murder of Dexter McFarlene, who was killed during a shootout on Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, on November 11, 2022. Two other men are currently on remand for their alleged role in the murder.

Additionally, Ridley is currently before the court for discharging a loaded firearm at a man with intent to harm him back in July 2022.

In January, he was charged with robbing a woman at gunpoint of over $4.5 million in jewellery, cash and cellphones.

Last year, he was arraigned before the same court for breaking into a woman’s West Ruimveldt, Georgetown home on August 11, 2021, and stealing over $70,000 in items.
He is currently out on bail for that matter.

Meanwhile, in 2019, he was sentenced to a total of three years in prison for two counts of robbery and two counts of assault committed on two police officers during his arrest.

He was released from prison in June 2021.