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Mar 17, 2015 News
Six days after political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing’s shocking assassination, police have made little headway in finding his killers.
An official confirmed yesterday that police have released two men that they had hoped would have helped identify the gunman who pumped five bullets at close range into the ex-army officer.
A source said that investigators are hoping to locate CCTV footage from the area where the outspoken activist was slain.
Police have set up a special team to investigate the case, which has drawn outrage from a wide cross-section of Guyanese.
While local sleuths have seldom solved killings of this nature, a police official told Kaieteur News yesterday that he believes that the investigators will eventually find Crum-Ewing’s killers. However, the source appeared to be less optimistic that the case would be solved if leads point to it being a politically motivated crime.
Crum-Ewing, a former Queen’s College student and army officer, was gunned down two Tuesdays ago in Third Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, reportedly while urging residents, by way of a bullhorn, to vote against the ruling party in the upcoming General and Regional Elections. He was shot twice to the temple, once to the back of the head, and twice to the stomach.
The killer used a .32 pistol and fired at such close range that gunpowder burns were left on his victim’s clothes and body.
Police had stated that Crum-Ewing was accosted by four men in a car, one of whom discharged several rounds, hitting him about his body.
The autopsy has dispelled reports that Crum-Ewing was shot while trying to flee his killer(s).
However, other reports suggest that there were only two men in the car that transported the shooter. A second car with another two men came up soon after.
Police have also received reports that there was a brief verbal confrontation before the gunfire.
Crum-Ewing’s mother, Donna Harcourt, has said that the postmortem left her with no doubt that the person who executed her son was skilled in the use of firearms.
Crum-Ewing’s relatives have alleged that he had complained twice of receiving threats. This occurred when the 40-year-old ex-army officer began staging his one-man protests outside Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall’s Carmichael Street office, while urging the Attorney General to resign in the wake of a recorded telephone conversation between himself and a Kaieteur News journalist.
The first threat was reportedly made by an individual, who allegedly drove up to Crum-Ewing and said: “Anil ain’t going nowhere, so you better go or else…”
On another occasion, he was reportedly told: “Crum-Ewing, you don’t mean to stop this stupidness?” They said that the protestor had reported these threats to the police and identified one of the individuals, but no action was taken.
Crum-Ewing’s minibus was also vandalized.
His stepfather, Eustace Harcourt, said that they had repeatedly cautioned the outspoken Crum-Ewing about taking unnecessary risks. “I would try to explain the dangers. I would tell him that I didn’t want him on the road late at night.
“He would say: ‘if you have to live in fear, if you can’t talk, then I can’t live in this country.’
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