Baracara man charged for fatally shooting farmer in 2023

Timothy Charles De Yonge, a 63-year-old logger of Baracara Village, a Canje riverine community in East Berbice, has been remanded to prison for allegedly murdering a remigrant back in November 2013.
De Yonge appeared before New Amsterdam Magistrate Michelle Matthias and had a charge read to him which detailed that Police are alleging that he murdered Titus Sutton, also called ‘Franky’ or ‘Preso’, a remigrant of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara on November 8, 2023 at the Canje riverine community of Baracara.
De Yonge was not required to plead to the indictment, and has been remanded to prison until June 18.

In January 2014, police had issued a wanted bulletin for De Yonge, but he was arrested on April 20, 2024 during an intelligence-led operation, when police went to his home at Baracara and carried out a search which unearthed a suspected 12-gauge cartridge in a bag that was hung on the bedroom wall.
De Yonge had reportedly shot Sutton following a dispute. Another man, 34-year-old Sherwin Mc Almont, called ‘Shut’, also of Melanie Damishana, had also been shot in the leg during that encounter.
They were shot at the home of De Yonge after they had gone there following a dispute that had developed between them.