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Cops preparing report for DPP on gun link to Sophia murder

Mar 28, 2012 News

Police are to seek legal advice on whether murder charges can be filed against persons who were allegedly found with the firearm that was used to kill Sophia mechanic Marlon Welcome.
A police official said that investigators are preparing a report which they will send to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Police say that ballistics tests on a .38 Taurus revolver recovered following a spate of robberies at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, revealed that bullets from the firearm matched the warhead recovered from Welcome’s remains.
The suspects who were allegedly found with the firearm have already been charged with robbery under arms.
The 33-year-old mechanic was shot in the head in his ‘A’ Field, Sophia home at around 01:30 hrs on February 17.
Police are still trying to identify a suspect or to come up with a motive for his death.
It is alleged that the killer gained entry to the premises via a kitchen window after removing some louver panes. The gunman allegedly fled via the back door after shooting Welcome.
Police lifted fingerprints from the louver panes but said that the prints did not match anyone that they questioned.
Welcome’s niece, who was the only other occupant, said that she awoke after hearing two loud sounds and her uncle groaning.
The woman said that she saw someone fleeing via the back door. She then stumbled over Welcome, who was lying on the floor near his bedroom. She summoned neighbours and took Welcome to the Woodlands Hospital where he succumbed.
Relatives said that Welcome had no enemies that they knew of.
However, close friends of the slain man said that he had confided that someone had been stealing money that he kept in his home. He reportedly also had $300,000 which he was planning to use to buy land in Sophia.

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