Police following new lead in clothes vendor’s murder
Dead: Paul Anthony Smith, aka “Blacka”
Days after clothes vendor Paul Anthony Smith was shot dead during a row, reportedly over a female, Regional Commander Simon Mc Bean on Tuesday said they are on the hunt for the alleged shooter.
Guyana Times was reliably informed that new information has surfaced that the alleged shooter in the vendor’s murder is the father of the suspect who was initially detained by the Police. Police have since said that several checks were made for the suspect at his residence but he was not located.
On New Year’s Day, 32-year-old Smith of Lot 31 Bent Street Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, who plied his trade at the East Coast Bus Park, Georgetown, was shot dead around 18:30h at Commerce Street, Georgetown.
According to Police reports, Smith was observed holding a cutlass and heading to his car when he was shot by another male, who is also a clothes vendor at Longden and Commerce Streets.
As a result, he fell on the front passenger seat of his car. He was subsequently picked up by public-spirited citizens and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was seen and examined by a doctor on duty who pronounced him dead.
Police said the man bore one gunshot wound to the upper back.
Acting upon information received, the Police arrested the 29-year-old suspect, a resident of East La Penitence, Georgetown. Investigations are ongoing.
