Latest update February 14th, 2025 8:22 AM
Suspects in Eccles execution released on station bail
The two men who were detained for questioning into the killing of Diamond businessman, Leonard
Dead: Leonard Mahadeo
Mahadeo, have been released.
This publication was told that the men were released from police custody sometime yesterday morning on station bail.
Mahadeo was gunned down Friday night at Eccles, East Bank Demerara in what investigators believe was a drug-related hit. Police said that Mahadeo, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, had multiple gunshot wounds. The bullet casings at the scene indicated that the killers used assault rifles. A police official confirmed that an unlicensed Taurus pistol was found in the slain man’s car.
Last Friday night, two masked gunmen walked into the Soca Paradise Bar, Eccles, with a ‘long gun’ and a handgun and riddled Mahadeo, who was sitting at a table with a friend. Eyewitnesses said that the two masked men, after shooting Mahadeo and leaving his companion unharmed, calmly walked out of the bar and escaped.
There are reports that Mahadeo may have been somehow linked to the recent discovery of two haversacks with cocaine which was found in the compound of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
On Sunday last, ranks from the Police Narcotics Unit found the bag with cocaine totaling 10 kilograms.
Back in 1998, Mahadeo was shot in the chest, right shoulder and left knee by an armed man while sitting in his car at the corner of Barr Street and Stanley Place, Kitty in front of the Bahama Breeze Bar. It was reported that the incident was an execution attempt.
Eyewitnesses to the incident had reported that Mahadeo had gone into the Bahama Breeze nightspot and had bought something to drink. He then returned to his car with the beverage. Shortly after, a gunman, who was standing some 50 yards away, opened fire at Mahadeo’s vehicle before escaping.
He was also charged in the ‘90’s with conspiracy to traffic in cocaine in a case involving the Canadian law enforcement officials.
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