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Apr 01, 2015 News
Police are in possession of a .32 pistol that appears to have been used to kill Sterling Products Limited security guard Wilfred Stewart and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer Trevor Abrams.
An official told Kaieteur News that ballistic tests on shells recovered from the murder scenes linked the firearm to the two slayings, which occurred in December 2014 and February 2015 on the East Bank of Demerara.
Police reportedly recovered the handgun and matching ammunition last Friday during a raid in Diamond Housing Scheme, in which two men were detained and a third fled.
The suspects, Rayon Paddy, 26, of 278 South Ruimveldt Park, and Orin Arthur, 25, of Block X Diamond, East Bank Demerara, have since been accused of carrying out a recent robbery at Mahaicony, while setting up a bogus roadblock and posing as policemen. They were remanded on several charges last Monday,
A source said that it was too early to link the suspects to the killing of Stewart and Abrams, even though the murder weapon was allegedly found in their possession.
Stewart, 45, was shot dead on December 8, 2014, when gunmen in a car forced their way into the Sterling Products Limited compound at Providence, East Bank Demerara. The killers also shot Mario Gohill, an Indian National who was employed as a chemist, to his left leg, before fleeing with the slain guard’s service revolver.
Police had said the bandits, numbering about three, also entered the office area, but failed to gain access to a safe with a substantial amount of cash.
Investigators retrieved two assault rifle casings and two .32 shells from the scene. Three suspects were
detained briefly but the case remains unsolved.
On February 26, last, heavily armed men ambushed and riddled 32-year-old GGMC mining engineer Trevor Abrams, in broad daylight, as he drove on the East Bank Demerara public road near Little Diamond.
Abrams’ car ended up in a canal and he was already dead when rescuers pulled him from the vehicle. There are reports that Abrams had visited a commercial bank shortly before he was slain, but police said that they still had no clear motive for the brazen killing.
Kaieteur News was told that the only thing police recovered from the car Abrams was driving was a bag containing a flash drive, his national identification card and other personal documents.
After viewing surveillance footage of two men shooting Abrams, investigators appear to believe that two of their former colleagues committed the brazen killing. Police believe that the same suspects committed a heist at the Linden Post Office some time ago. One of the ex-cops is now in custody.
A day after Abrams was slain, police seized a grey Toyota AT 212 from a residence in Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara. A fake number plate was reportedly found next to the vehicle, which reportedly had a number of bullet holes.
Police said that a woman who owns the vehicle claimed she had given the car to someone to take to a mechanic. The woman and her husband were detained briefly but were not charged.
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