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Suspected hit-man among victims – Top Cop
By Latoya Giles
Commissioner Henry Greene (second from left) with other senior police officers at yesterday’s press briefing
According to Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, information garnered from their sources has linked Saturday night’s Cummings Lodge executions to a sour drug deal.
This disclosure was made during a press briefing yesterday at Eve Leary.
The Top Cop said one of the dead men, Christopher Gordon called “Bigga” was an involuntary remigrant. He explained that Gordon was deported to Guyana in 2003, on narcotics charges.
According to Greene, another of the individuals killed, Steve Jupiter called “Steve man” was suspected to have been linked to “all sorts of criminality”.
He explained that Jupiter had been suspected to be a “paid hit-man”, an enforcer and also as a transporter for drugs among others. He said his associates in the vehicle were well known, and all had chequered backgrounds.
Moreover the commissioner said that their intelligence centre has been picking up certain information, which has suggested that one of the dead men had failed to deliver a quantity of drugs.
Greene explained that the individual had collected over nine kilos of cocaine that was supposed to be handed over to a certain group from Venezuela. The man claimed that the drugs were seized by the local authorities, however, according to the police commissioner, that story may not have been believed, thus he and his associates were attacked and killed.
The commissioner when questioned about a linkage between a recent drug bust at the airport and the Cummings Lodge killings, said that they were unable to make a connection.
The five persons killed in last Saturday night’s execution-style slayings were identified as Steve Jupiter, his son’s mother, Fiona Singh, 23, their son Neil Jupiter, 3, Christopher Gordon and Sherwin Jerome called “Dice head”.
Commissioner Greene expressed the fact that the child and his mother were probably at the wrong place at the wrong time.
He disclosed that the police had received a report about a shooting in Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara and responded.
At the scene a motor car with several bullet holes was discovered. Two of the three men were found slumped in the vehicle while another was found in a nearby ditch.
Greene further explained that the owner of the vehicle has been identified as Jupiter’s mother.
He related that Jupiter had gone to Cummings Lodge to collect his reputed wife and son.
As they were leaving the area, person or persons unknown, opened fire at the vehicle, instantly killing the three men. They escaped in a white car, according to information the police received, said Greene.
The child was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital, while the woman died several hours after at the same institution.
Greene said that the killers were following the men, and seized the opportunity to commit the “ungodly act” when the opportune moment presented itself. “They took the opportunity since the streets were dark and they were no eyewitnesses.”
The police recovered a number of spent shells at the scene, however, the commissioner revealed that ballistics tests have been unable to link the guns to any previous crimes.
He said the weapons used were “new guns on the scene”. In previous matters involving AK-47 assault rifles, the commissioner said that they have on most occasions been able to link them to crimes.
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