“Crack skull” remanded on murder charge

Twenty-one-year-old Selwin Dawson, called “Crack skull,” was on Friday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on a charge alleging that on December 20, 2017, during the course of a robbery at Old Road, Craig, East Bank Demerara, he murdered Purcell Moore, a father of two vacationing in Guyana from Cayenne,

French Guiana.
The murder was allegedly committed outside of Moore’s mother’s Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home.
Dawson, of 170 1st Field, Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, is being represented by Attorneys Vindie Persaud and George Thomas.
Another accused in this robbery/murder is said to be charged shortly.
Dawson has been remanded, and the case has been set to continue on January 22.

RECAP
According to reports, Moore had just left his mother’s home, and was walking through an alleyway when he was attacked by three men attempting to steal a gold chain he was wearing.
The 42-year-old reportedly refused to hand over the chain, and a scuffle ensued. He was pushed into a drain, and when he fell, one of the bandits whipped out a firearm and reportedly shot him several times. Moore was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police in a subsequent release detailed that Moore’s body bore a suspected gunshot wound to the right-side chest and lacerations to the head, while investigators reported retrieving two spent shells of a small calibre weapon at the crime scene.