Murdered gas station owner’s killer still at large

Jan 22, 2009 News

The dead man’s home, where the body of Brandis Roberts was discovered.

Almost two months after the body of 67-year-old Brandis Roberts was discovered with hands bound behind his back in his home in Parika, the trail leading to his murderer(s) seems to have gone cold.
A police source explained that since the preliminary investigations, the police have had little progress in ascertaining the gas station owner’s killer(s). Despite the fact that they have made little progress with the case, the police are apparently continuing their investigations into the man’s brutal death.
A post mortem examination of the 67-year-old’s body showed that he died from asphyxia due to strangulation.
The police had previously taken into custody a woman identified as Roberts’s supposed lover and a man described only as “a negro man from the area.” These two individuals have long since been released from police custody.
Even though the body was discovered on November 30, 2008, it is believed that Roberts had been dead since the evening of November 29, as he was still wearing his work clothes and work boots when his body was discovered.
Roberts’s body was discovered in the bottom flat of his residence, where he lived alone, with his hands bound behind his back with a length of cord, apparently taken from an exercise machine in the house, and with a shirt tied around his throat.

Brandis Roberts, in his younger years.

Still baffling the police is the motive of the killing, since the deceased was still wearing two gold rings, and since his cellular phone was intact. A canister containing documents was also found intact, although attempts had reportedly been made to force it open.
A police source has said that they are searching for some other persons in connection with the murder of Roberts, but were having a hard time finding them as they were ‘out of their (the police investigating the matter) jurisdiction.’