Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Three accused in Juice Power murder head to court
Three persons are now before the courts facing charges stemming from the shooting death of city businessman Ricardo Henriques. The third accused, Troy Collymore, 28, of 60 Prince William Street, Plaisance, was arrested earlier this week. Yesterday, the three appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
Junior Henry (left) and Baldeo Seegobin
It is alleged that Collymore, Baldeo Seegobin, 32, of 97 West Ruimveldt, and Junior Henry, of 58 West Ruimveldt, killed Henriques on November 24. They were not required to plead since the charge was indictable. The three men are expected to make another court appearance on January 27.
Thirty-two-year-old Henriques was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital after gunmen robbed and shot him at point blank range in the head on Middle Street.
Reports were that the gunmen had struck when Henriques was at Juice Power on Middle Street, purchasing water. According to Henriques’s father, he had left his son to go and purchase lotto tickets at a nearby shop.
He said that while he was walking away from the vehicle he saw two men walking up to the vehicle and the next he heard was a gunshot.
He added that he then saw two men running from his son’s vehicle with a bag.
“I start running behind the men and they shot at me and I just throw myself down on the ground,” Henriques recalled.
The man said he got up and began running behind the men again, who were by this time on a motorcycle. After the robbery the gunmen escaped with an undisclosed amount of money.
Also recalling the incident was one of the dead man’s employees who said that (Henriques) had just walked from his vehicle to purchase water in Juice Power.
“As soon as I reach in de place to buy de water I hear one ah dem other boy shouting fuh me but by the time I reach outside I hear de gunshot and I see de men running away,” the man recalled.
From all indications, the man said, they might have been followed by the gunmen who seemed to have had perfect timing. The dead man leaves to mourn his wife and two children along with other family members.
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