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May 15, 2016 News
It’s two more cases in the bag for the police, with the capture of Thurston Kenrick Williams, who was wanted
for the March 2015 murder of gold miner Charles Major at Mahdia, and the arrest of fugitive Stafrei Alexander, wanted for the April 4, 2015 murder of businesswoman Shevon Gordon.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that Williams, of Lot 9-10 Queen Street, South Cummingsburg, was arrested on Friday in a bus at the Mahdia bus park in Georgetown. Alexander was held around 10.00 hrs yesterday in a bus at Yupukari, Rupununi.
Williams was questioned at CID Headquarters, where he reportedly admitted to killing Charles Major, 57, whose battered body was found on the Dickman Hill Backdam trail on March 6, 2015.
Williams reportedly blamed Major for causing his aunt’s death several years ago. He also claimed that he had worked with Major, but that the miner had robbed him. The suspect stated that he was ‘smoking weed’ with another man some time last year when he told his associate about the things Major had done.
His companion, known as ‘Dougla’, reportedly claimed that Major had caused his brother’s death.
He reportedly told investigators that he was smoking ‘weed’ with ‘Dougla’ on another occasion when ‘Dougla’ expressed the desire to “done he (Major’s) dance.” They later attacked and killed Major. Before killing the miner, Williams reportedly told the victim: “this is for my aunt and this is for robbing me.”
He is to be charged this week.
Stafrei Alexander, the other captured fugitive, was charged for the April 4, 2015 murder of businesswoman Shevon Gordon, who was shot by two bandits who had accosted her after she stepped out of her truck. She was also relieved of a bag containing money. Her son was also wounded.
Hopkinson, 30, of Lot 129, Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown; Robin Maxwell Thomas, and Aiden Bowen, of Blueberry Hill, were arrested and charged with Gordon’s murder. Alexander was also slapped with several armed robbery charges.
But in December, 2015, Hopkinson and Thomas escaped from the Mackenzie Police Station. They were to have attended court the following day.
Thomas’s decomposing body was found in the Demerara River, in the vicinity of West Watooka, some weeks later. Thomas is believed to have provided investigators with information about the murder.
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