Police in Mahdia, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) have arrested a miner who allegedly shot and killed two men between March and April, this year.
Twenty-three-year-old Lyfrey Alban was reportedly arrested on Friday and questioned in relation to the alleged double murder committed on Geraldo Vieira De Souza and Edivaldo Alves Da Silva which occurred at Gold Camp Backdam Mountain Ayangana, Potaro River.
Lyfrey Alban, the man that was arrested in relation to the murder
During interrogation, the suspect reportedly admitted to shooting the men. He claimed that he was contacted by a Macushi man called “Jackie Chan”, from Brazil who offered him $2 million to kill De Souza and De Silva.
He further claimed that the man told him that the two men had murdered his son at a backdam in Brazil.
After accepting the job, the suspect related that he armed himself with a 20-gauge shotgun, went to the mining camp, and shot the two men. The Macushi man, he noted, was with him at the time he committed the act.
The man reportedly left the scene and did not return to pay the suspect. Alban told detectives that he went into the camp and was later arrested by the Police since he was in possession of the illegal 20-gauge single barrel shotgun.
He was later arrested and charged and remains in custody as the probe continues.
