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Oct 02, 2013 News
– police source
Ballistic tests have revealed that the submachine gun that police recovered from a teenager was not fired at the scene of Sunday’s execution-style killing in Barr Street, Kitty.
Kaieteur News was told that none of the 9mm shells and warheads the investigators recovered matched those that ballistic experts fired from the submachine gun while conducting their tests.
Some investigators suggest that this was the weapon that reportedly jammed when one of the gunmen tried to shoot a former murder accused who was sitting with Shelliza Basir-Lall and her husband. Police are also trying to ascertain whether the weapon was used in any other recent killing.
The youth was nabbed in a taxi shortly after the attack at Mambo’s Beer Garden. Police officials say that he has given investigators conflicting accounts about how he came into possession of the weapon.
“He’s saying that he found the gun two days (prior to the murder) and three weeks ago,” an official said. Another source said that the youth even tried to implicate the taxi driver in whose car he was travelling when he was detained.
Shelliza Basir-Lall, also called Shelly Lall of Charity, Essequibo, was shot at least four times as she sat with her husband and about six other people at a table at the Kitty establishment. She died while receiving treatment at the Balwant Singh Hospital.
Her husband, Raymond Lall, 36, who runs a trucking company and operates a speedboat service, was shot five times. He underwent surgery at a private hospital in the city. Sources said that his injuries are not life-threatening.
Also injured were Parmanad Persaud of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, and Babatunde Nedd of Parika, West Coast Demerara.
A police official said that the attack appeared to be drug-related, and indications are that the gunmen had also intended to kill a former murder accused who was sitting with the victims.
The man has reportedly gone into hiding.
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