Kaieteur News
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Saturday February 04, 2017
2014 restaurant waitress murder ...
Crippled suspect entered prison after Debra Blackman was killed - source A police source has indicated that 21-year-old Shelton George, who was arrested on Wednesday for the murder of 48-year-old Debra Blackman, was in prison when the waitress was killed. Kaieteur News understands that after the woman was killed, the cops got a tip that the waitress killer was in prison but they were provided with an incorrect name. Reports are that after the woman was gunned down, George was arrested on a robbery under arms charge. “He was around when the woman was killed. It was
after her murder that he was arrested,” the source indicated. Kaieteur News was informed that the young man was arrested on two counts of murder—for Blackman and for Bernadette Campbell, who was shot in a minibus at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The source said that the crippled gunman is definitely going down for Blackman's murder, thanks to surveillance footage. While George chose to remain tight-lipped, the source said that they have enough evidence to pin murder charges on him.
“He was attending court on a robbery charge but we didn't know it was him. But we have footage and from that, you can identify him,” the source said. George, who was arrested on Wednesday at his mother's Better Hope home, is currently in police custody. Reports are that the cops are looking to charge his mother, Rosaline Monroe, for aiding and abetting a criminal. Monroe insisted that her son is not the killer. She said her son went to Suriname on January 9, 2014, and he sustained spinal injuries and
lost a kidney after he was shot there. Mrs. Munroe said he returned to Guyana in September 2014. She further related that in September 2015, police charged him for armed robbery and he was remanded. According to Munroe, he remained on remand until June 2016, when he was released on bail. Mrs. Munroe said that he has been attending court and she was surprised when police came to her home on Wednesday and arrested him for murder. Mrs. Munroe has since retained a lawyer for her son. While one of the suspect's Facebook profiles shows the tattooed Munroe posing near a huge stack of cash, his
Shelton George, the alleged gunman who shot and killed Debra Blackman mother insists that he is not a criminal. She said that the photograph was taken in Suriname, and the money belongs to an individual with whom her son was employed. The wheel-chair bound
alleged gunman was shot twice to the back by Kellon Hinds, who was hiding out there after murdering Sherwyn Barrow. Kellon Hinds was gunned down in August 2015 upon his return to Guyana.
Prime suspect in Kaneville deadly fire arrested in Mahdia
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young man who along with his gang allegedly burnt a house down at Third Field, Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD) which resulted in the death of eight-
month-old Romain Seth, was arrested at Nine Miles Mahdia, Region Eight. Kaieteur News understands that the man, who is in his early 20s and was apprehended after ranks
in 'F Division' were alerted to the man's presence in the area. A young woman previously held for the fire was released on bail. A c c o r d i n g t o information, the prime suspect had accused the toddler's grandmother of 'snitching' on him and his gang to the cops, resulting in lawmen raiding the neighbourhood frequently for guns and drugs. The baby's grandmother, Michelle Menezes, believes that the fire was indeed as a result of a report she made to the police after finding a gun stashed in a tree in her backyard, allegedly by the young man. The suspect and other villagers used her yard as a short cut to get to another street. Menezes said that after she reported the matter, the police started raiding the place and eventually she started getting threats from the young man and his gang. Recalling what transpired on the day of the fire, she said that she had just fed the baby and had put him to sleep when she heard a strange noise at the back of her home. ”I get up and went to the back to see what it was and then I hear another sound. When I watch (out the window) I see big balls of fire (being thrown at the house). They roll up paper,
Dead: Romain Seth light it, and fling it at the house. If you see was how much; like two, three coming at one time,” the woman recounted. She explained that by the time she called out for her relatives to run out of the house, the blaze had already engulfed most of her p r o p e r t y, b e c a u s e i t wasconstructed of old wood. ”When I went for my grandson, he was already burn up, because they (suspects) push open the window and throw in a ball with fire on the bed,” the woman lamented. She said that she was forced to run out of the burning house and leave the baby behind since he was already dead. The woman said that it was during the fire that she ran over to the building next door, which she claimed is the hangout for the teenager and his friends, and found the items which were used to set the fire.