THE ALLEGED trigger-man behind the Emancipation Day execution-style killing of Laing Avenue resident Orin David was on Monday remanded to prison by City Magistrate Leron Daley.Samuel McIntyre was not required to plea to the capital offence of murder, which alleged that on August 1, at Laing Avenue, he shot and killed David, called “Plait Hair.”

The unrepresented McIntyre was remanded to prison until September 8, when he is scheduled to appear before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

The suspect was picked up and had his car impounded a day after the incident (August 2), and he is alleged to be the man who killed David outside his home.

David was riddled with bullets by a group of men outside his Lot 89 Laing Avenue, Georgetown home after having a row with a friend who reportedly owed him some money.

Investigations revealed that David, 32, had earlier had an argument with one of the suspects over bail money, and the suspect left and returned with the other men. As the victim approached the vehicle containing the suspects, several shots were fired.

David was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital. One empty 12-gauge shotgun cartridge and a .32 spent shell were found at the scene of the shooting.

David was freed in February 2015 after being imprisoned for five years for the alleged 2010 murder of Mahaica farmer Lakhram Bishundial, who had been fatally shot during a robbery at Hope Turn, East Coast Demerara.

Bishundial was on his way home from a city bank, after he had withdrawn some money for his younger sibling’s wedding, when he was robbed and killed by two men.

David and another person, identified as Shawn Thom, were subsequently charged with Bishundial’s murder. Thom was freed a week before David.
David had been well known to the police because he had had several brushes with the law, including possession of an unlicensed firearm.