Cop gets $1.6M bail for New Year’s fatal shooting of corporal, fisherman

Police Constable Shane James has been arraigned before Mahaicony Magistrate Melissa Mittelholzer on two counts of manslaughter relative to the New Year’s Day fatal shooting which claimed the lives of 31-year-old Detective Corporal Dwayne McPherson and 20-year-old fisherman Kishan Budburgh.
The 26-year-old James, of Perth Village, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, has been charged under Section 94 of the Criminal Law Offences Act Chapter 8:01, and has not been required to plead to the indictments in his arraignment on January 25.
He has been placed on bail in the sum of $800,000 on each charge, and the cases have been adjourned to today, February 8, 2023.

Detective Corporal McPherson, who had been stationed at the Mahaicony Police Station, and 20-year-old Budburgh, who had been a fisherman of Grove, Huntley, Mahaicony, were both killed on New Year’s morning reportedly when Constable James fired at them several shots from the firearm he was carrying. It has been reported by this newscast that the Policeman had been shot twice and the fisherman had been shot some four times.
Prior to the shooting, five of the Budburgh brothers were at a bar in the village when an issue erupted over the throwing of explosives. One of the brothers was injured and there was a subsequent fight. The brothers had left for home, and two were arrested by Police before they got there; the others had run away from the Police.
However, three Police ranks subsequently turned up at the Budburghs’ Huntley Village home just after midnight.
After the three brothers came out, one of the Police ranks reportedly opened fire. Several holes were left in the kitchen wall of the Budburghs’ home, and bullets were seen in the wooden posts under the house.
It was reported that two of the brothers fled for cover, and that Kishan remained under the house. The Police rank reportedly held on to him and began slapping him. The young man, according to reports, held on to the officer, and they both fell to the ground in a scuffle.
It was then that one of the Police ranks was ordered to shoot at them on the ground.
After being hit, Budburgh got up and ran into the dark, but collapsed a short distance away, while the Police picked up the injured detective and took him away.
The fisherman was later discovered injured by his mother after she returned home from church. She reportedly went to the Police station, where two of her sons were already in the lock-ups, but was chased away. The woman reportedly went to the hospital to get an ambulance, but there was no driver available.
A taxi had refused to transport the injured man to the hospital, and by the time the Police arrived four hours later, Kishan Budburgh is said to have died.