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Man wanted for KN grenade attack shot dead in Suriname
from Kaieteur News
by GxMedia
A26-year-old man wanted for being part of the June 4, 2015grenadeattackatKaieteur News was on Sunday morning shot dead at Posrenstraat, Suriname, Surinamese police haveconfirmed.
The dead man identified as Shemar Wilson was reportedly gunned down in a vehicle parked next to an apartment building.
Accordingtoreportsfroma Surinamese media house, a woman was with him in the vehicle when a lone gunman started shooting at the vehicle from behind before fleeing the scene.
Wilson was killed on the spot after bullets struck him in thehead,chest,abdomen,arms andlegs.
Surinamese Police have since taken the woman into custody as they investigate Wilson’sKilling.
Wilson,aGuyaneseformerlyof Sophia, was accused of conspiring with three men, Alfie Garraway, LeroyWilliamsandJaneilHoward tolobagrenadeataLexusvehicle owned by Kaieteur News Publisher,GlennLall.
They allegedly carried out the attack on June 4, 2015, while the Lexus was parked in front of the Kaieteur News head office located on Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown.
Luckily the grenade did not explode but the sound of it dropping in front of the building alerted security guards who were ondutyoutsideofthebuilding.
On checking the front of the vehicle, the staff member spotted the grenade lying near one of the front tyres of the vehicle.
Video footage from the company’s CCTV cameras showedagrey-colouredvehicle slowing as it approached Lall’s vehicle. The driver accelerated aftertheexplosivewasthrown.
Police had captured Garraway, Williams and Howard and they are presently beforethehighcourtontrialbut Wilsonwasnevercaptured.
Itisbelievedthatthefugitive had fled to French Guiana. However in 2019, an online media house reported that he was detained for questioning at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport after being deported for overstaying his time in French Guiana.
Nothing else was reported since then, but if the report was true, Wilson must have given the Guyaneseauthoritiestheslipagain andreturnedtoFrenchGuiana. KaieteurNewsunderstandsthat he became involved in criminal activitiesthereandwasaccusedof murderingamaninOctober,2022. Atthetimeofhisdeath,hewas hiding out in Suriname from the FrenchGuianaPolice.
