Security guard on bail for unlawful killing of Mahdia miner
Two weeks after 24-year-old Akeem Ceasar was shot and killed, 40-year-old Devon Harris, a security guard of Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD), on Friday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts arraigned on a charge of manslaughter.
Dead: Akeem Caesar
The accused was not required to plea to the charge read by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. The particulars detailed that on March 3, 2020, at Blackwater Landing, Kanawaruk, Harris unlawfully killed Caesar, a miner of Wismar, Linden.
According to the prosecution’s case, at about 15:30h on March 3, Caesar was consuming alcohol with friends at a shop, when an argument ensued between himself and the accused.
Things quickly escalated into a fight between the two, but was later parted by persons in the area. However, the court heard that Caesar left for a short while but returned with broken bottles to harm Harris. It was then that the accused allegedly reached for his firearm and discharged a round which hit the now dead man to his left foot.
Charged for manslaughter: Devon Harris
An injured Caesar was rushed to the Mahdia District Hospital at about 23:30h, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Defence Attorney Adrian Thompson presented a bail application in which he asked the court to release his client, citing that he is a father of four children.
The Chief Magistrate accepted the application and granted Harris’ pretrial liberty in the sum of $200,000 bail. As a condition of his bail, Harris was ordered to report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) every Friday until the commencement of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI). The matter was adjourned to April 9.
