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Stall holder still in custody

Jan 07, 2011 News

By Michael Jordan

Police have detained stall holder Mark Hyman, called ‘Bow Wow’ as they seek answers to the circumstances that led to Wednesday’s grenade explosion which killed a vagrant and injured 19 other persons.
Senior police officials said that Hyman was detained shortly after the explosion occurred and was still in custody up to late yesterday evening.
Kaieteur News understands that the Stabroek Market Square vendor has denied any knowledge about the grenade. According to sources, Hyman, who lives in Charlotte Street, has stated that he has many enemies.
But police sources have refuted suggestions that the device was in the vendor’s stall when the blast occurred.
Initial reports suggest that the vagrant, known as ‘American’, was near Hyman’s stall when the device exploded. Police are still to ascertain the dead man’s real name, but have received reports that he has relatives on the West Coast or West Bank of Demerara.
Commissioner Henry Greene told reporters on Wednesday that he is convinced that the vagrant was holding the device, since one of his hands was blown off from below the elbow and his face badly disfigured.
A weapons expert explained that the victim would have had to have removed the pin for the grenade to explode.
Greene also suggested that the dead man might have been a courier for the sale of the explosive device.
The Commissioner revealed that as a matter of fact, crime scene investigators found 50 pieces of fragments in the ceiling, eight of which had green paint, which enabled them to conclude that the explosive device was indeed a fragmentation grenade.
However, investigators have so far been unable to locate the pin or lever of the device.
Greene added that the area where the incident occurred was ideal for the sale of firearms and other illegal items and investigators believe that the dead man was one of the persons being used for such purposes.
One vendor had told Kaieteur News that “American” was sweeping and unpacking Hyman’s stall when the explosion occurred.
Injured in the explosion were Marvyn Adams, 30, of 248 First St. Mocha;four-year-old Seon Barrow, of Lot 3 Bagotsville, West Coast Demerara; Gampattie Mohanlall of Timehri; Victorine Campbell, 76, of 19 New Hope, East Bank Demerara; Irfan Alli, 42, of 54 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara; Clairon Alleyne, 30, of 318 Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke Highway; Egbert Austin, 40, of 74 Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara; Esther Sutherland, 55, of 44 Palm Street; 49-year-old Avis Davidson of 59 La Retraite, West Coast Demerara; Surjpattie Rajkumarie, 63, of 213 Grove Squatting Area EBD; Sandra Harrilall, 33, of 81 Diamond Housing Scheme; Trefa Hinds, 31, of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara; Dennis DeFreitas, 50, of 32 Robb Street; Malvina David, 67, of 4 Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt; Randolph Browne, 34, of 538 Mocha Housing Scheme; Allen Daniels, 50, of 23 Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice; Edward Dalton, age 38, of 76 Hyde Park, Timehri, East Bank Demerara, and Shane Wiggins, 28, of 33 Herstelling, East Bank Demerara.

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