Sister leads detectives to shallow grave almost 1 month after witnessing murder

Missing Linden woman

– Police issue wanted bulletin for boyfriend
– as sister, suspect’s father taken into custody

By Utamu Belle

The decomposed body of 20-year-old Shonette Dover, a bartender of Canvas City, Wismar, Linden, who went missing almost a month ago, was discovered in a shallow grave in her boyfriend’s backyard on Friday.
The body was reportedly found after the victim’s 15-year-old sister who witnessed the murder broke her silence during interrogation between Tuesday and Friday.
In giving a detailed account of what took place, the teenager told the Police in the presence of a Child Care and Probation Officer that on April 5, 2021, her sister’s boyfriend, 21-year-old Shaquawn Alleyne as “oiling his brownish gun in their living room”.
She recalled him pointing the gun at her sister who told him “he like play and he should put away that thing.” Soon after, the teen said she heard a loud explosion as if a squib went off followed by Alleyne saying “oh shoots, I shoot the girl.”
The teenager explained that she saw her sister lying on the floor with her mouth open and blood was on her face. “I tell he let’s take her hospital and he said no she dead already.”
In a panicked but yet composed state, the teenager said that she and the suspect went to his father’s home and told him what had transpired. “His father told him, don’t tell me stupidness, why you playing with the gun?”
Soon after, she admitted that they collected a spade from someone

and dug a hole aback the house where the victim was buried after which the boyfriend hid the gun in a tree.
After being provided with this information and directed to the shallow grave, a team of detectives travelled to the area.
After digging about four feet into the earth, the ranks found the woman’s decomposed body wrapped in a multicoloured blanket. The body was clad in short denim pants and a green APNU t-shirt and a butterfly tattoo was seen on the stomach.
In addition, a Samsung cellular phone suspected to have belonged to the now dead woman was found between the sand that was dug out of the hole.
Due to the state of decomposition of the body, it was difficult to see any mark of violence on the most exposed parts. The remains were taken to the Pensioners Mortuary awaiting a post-mortem.
Nevertheless, following the revelation and discovery of the body, the Police have issued a wanted bulletin for the now dead woman’s boyfriend. The teenage sister who has held onto this information for close to a month was also arrested and so was the father of the suspect who assisted in getting rid of the body.

Family in shock
At the home of the dead woman, her grandmother, Constance Dover, was still in a state of shock upon receiving the devastating news.
She told Guyana Times that ever since her granddaughter went missing, they have been searching every corner with the hope of finding her while noting that the news of her death is overwhelming.
According to Dover, the family is yet to positively identify the remains to be that of her granddaughter.
“The Police come and he said, Mistress, we have found a body…the family would have to come and identify it,” the grieve-stricken elderly woman noted.
“I didn’t expect something like this would’ve happened to Shonette. I asking God, ‘why?’”, the grieving grandmother said.