NA man remanded for businessman’s murder during robbery

…victim died of gunshot wound – autopsy

Troyden Trellis, a 28-year-old resident of Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam (Region Six: East Berbice-Corentyne), was on Wednesday arraigned before Reliance Magistrate Michelle Matthias
on the indictable charge of murder committed on businessman Hemchan Utam, called Jetto, 54, on April 17.
He was not required to enter a plea, and has been remanded to prison until May 19, when his case would again be called for continuation.
An autopsy conducted on the body of Utam, called ‘Jetto’, revealed that he died from shock and hemorrhage due to a single gunshot wound he had sustained during an alleged robbery committed on his residence/place of business
at Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice.

RECAP
Hemchan Utam, called Jetto, who operated a retail store selling construction materials and also operated Jetto Trucking Service, was shot dead during the course of a robbery that allegedly took place at his home and place of business at Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice on April 17 at about 10:30hrs.
Reports are that Utam and his workers were conducting business when the lone unmasked gunman pounced upon them. Utam was shot before being relieved of the jewellery he was wearing at the time. The bandit also made off with an undisclosed sum of money.
Police subsequently arrested the prime suspect, Troyden Trellis, and have said that a search conducted in the apartment where he lives unearthed a 9mm pistol and three matching rounds concealed in a compartment within a wall divider in his living room.
Additionally, a black Honda motorcycle found at the rear of the premises has been identified as the vehicle used in the escape after commission of the alleged murder/robbery.
A 25-year-old female who resides at the same address, the mother of Trellis’s child, was also present at the time the police had conducted the search; and she also was arrested and placed in custody. The firearm and motorcycle have also been seized and lodged with the police.

Antecedents
Troyden Trellis and two others were accused of robbing New Amsterdam businessman Nicholas Harrinandan and his wife of two cellular phones and $250,000 in cash on November 21, 2015. They were armed with a gun and knives when they carried out that robbery.
In June 2016, Trellis was remanded, along with two men whom police described as notorious criminals: Raymond La Fleur and Timothy Sampson, after they attempted to break into a business place.
Then, in February 2017, when Trellis was 20 years old, some 509 grams of marijuana were found in a motorcar he was driving.
And in January last year, Trellis was injured during an incident that occurred outside a night club in Pitt Street, New Amsterdam. That incident involved the use of a firearm.