Murder suspect found hiding in father’s house

Almost two weeks after the Guyana Police Force (GPF) had issued a wanted bulletin for 19-year-old Joshua Williams, for questioning in relation to a murder, he was arrested on Wednesday in his father’s home at Kuru Kururu, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Based on information received, at about 16:45h on Wednesday, Police acting on information received went to the home of the suspect’s father, a 41-year-old taxi driver of Kuru Kururu, and found the suspect hiding behind a chair in the living room.
Williams has been wanted for murder allegedly committed on Joseph Davis, a 41-year-old resident of Swan Village, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
Guyana Times has been informed that the suspect and the victim had had an argument on March 19, 2022, and it resulted in a fight, during which Davis was wounded.
Davis had been taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where he was admitted as a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), but died on March 28. While he was in the GPHC, the Police had visited him on three occasions to get a statement, but were unsuccessful on each occasion. When Police officers returned to that medical facility on Monday, March 27, to interview Davis, they were informed by a nurse that he had died earlier that day while receiving medical attention. As such, Police had been unable to obtain information on what had eventually led to his demise.
The Police said on Wednesday that Joshua Williams’s father has also been arrested, for harbouring a wanted fugitive, since he was aware that a wanted bulletin had been issued for his son.
The suspect and his father were escorted to the Timehri Police Station, where they have been taken into custody, pending charges.