Soldier, girlfriend’s execution: Carpenter confesses to killing GDF rank for allegedly raping close relative

…girlfriend was collateral damage

A 23-year-old carpenter of Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who was wanted by the Police for questioning in relation to the shooting death of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal Daniel Fraser and his girlfriend Sheniqua Hodge, has confessed to the heinous crime.

He made the confession following his arrest and interrogation by members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday at the Brickdam Police Station.
During interrogation, he told detectives that on November 2, 2020, Fraser and two other men allegedly raped a close relative of his, and ever since the incident, the now dead GDF rank was in the habit of disrespecting and threatening him.
However, he stated that on September 1, 2021, at about 20:30h, he left his mother’s Meadow Brook home and went to the home of the rape victim.
At about 23:00h, he left the relative’s home on a black BMX bicycle, and was on his way to visit a friend who resides between B & C Fields Sophia when he saw Fraser imbibing at a shop in ‘C’ Field, Sophia.
He claimed that the now dead man threatened him while making derogatory remarks about his relative, whom he had raped. As such, the suspect said, he went back to his mother’s house, where he collected a handgun which he claimed he had found some time back at the Blacka Bridge. With the firearm in his possession, he reportedly went back to the friend’s home.
Further, he confessed that as he was approaching a bridge that leads to ‘C’ Field Sophia, he saw Fraser and a few other persons were about to cross the said bridge, and as such, he turned back and went to B Field, Sophia.
Shortly after, he reportedly saw Fraser and Hodge on a motorcycle. Another man was behind them on another motorcycle, he added.
He related that upon seeing him, Fraser shouted, “Look he deh hey.” At that time, the suspect whipped out the gun from his pants crotch and discharged several rounds in the direction of the couple.
After committing the act, the suspect claimed, he dropped the gun and escaped into ‘A’ Field Sophia, where he took off his clothes, left them on a dam and went back to his mother’s home, where he remained until he was arrested on Wednesday.
Guyana Times understands that investigators were able to confirmed that the suspect’s relative did make a report on May 27, 2021 that she was raped by Daniel Fraser and another member of the GDF. In that report, she claimed that the incident took place in February 2021, but out of embarrassment, she had refused to seek medical attention. The rape matter is still being investigated.
Fraser, 26, of Lot 598 A Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, and 23-year-old Hodge, formerly of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown and of Barbados, were riddled with bullets moments after leaving a party in C Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, on Wednesday evening last.
In fact, a post-mortem performed on the bodies proved that Fraser died from one gunshot injury to the chest, while his girlfriend died from multiple gunshot injuries.
It was reported that on the day in question, the now dead couple was at a party at C Field Sophia, but left for home at about 23:30h on motorcycle CK 9296.
However, as they were heading along the last street in B Field Sophia, they were confronted by a male on a bicycle, who discharged several rounds at them before fleeing the scene. Police initially stated that Fraser died on the spot, while Forde succumbed on the way to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Fraser reportedly sustained two gunshot wounds to the chest in the vicinity of the heart, while Forde received three gunshot injuries – one to the chest, one to her right knee, and one to the right-side abdomen, which exited the left-side abdomen.
Hodge reportedly arrived in Guyana in July to sort out some documents to join the Barbados Defence Force. Relatives had told Guyana Times that after she arrived in Guyana, she and Fraser met for the first time, but prior to that, they would communicate over the phone.
Investigators had stated that the now dead woman is the mother of a 4-year-old boy from a previous relationship, which ended. After the relationship came to an end, the child’s father had threatened to kill the woman several times after she and Fraser started a relationship.
After the shooting incident, the man was arrested and questioned. During interrogation, he held out that he was not involved in the execution-style killing of the two young people.