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Mc Doom murder suspect not in custody after picked up by cops
Victim: Abiola Edie
Almost a year after he went into hiding after fatally shooting a woman and wounding her son during a row over game cocks, McDoom resident Mark Assing, called Jesse, reportedly slipped through the hands of justice on Monday night, thanks to some corrupt cops.
Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the suspect, for whom a wanted bulletin was issued, was captured by a jeepload of plainclothes police ranks in an apartment building at 32 James Street, Albouystown. However police officials have indicated that he is not in their custody.
Residents of James Street, who asked not to be named, are convinced that the suspect was picked up by police around 22:00 hours on Monday.
“He came out to go to the toilet and he was seen by a girl. He threatened the girl and we don’t know is who call the police, but three of them (police) come up in a silver-grey jeep. We saw them bringing him out with handcuffs,” one resident told this newspaper.
But when checks were made with the police there was no record of his arrest.
This newspaper contacted a senior police official who promised to look into the matter.
According to a source, there are reports that Assing paid a large sum of money for his freedom.
On June 20, 2012, Assing allegedly shot his neighbours Abiola Edie and her son, Martin Barker, at McDoom, East Bank Demerara.
Edie was defending her son who was engaged in a heated argument with the suspect over game cocks.
It is alleged that as the argument intensified, Assing, who was said to be a scrap metal dealer, went into his house, collected a gun and shot Barker twice. Edie was shot to the face.
Barker was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and was eventually discharged, but his mother succumbed to her injury 10 days later.
Suspect: Mark Assing, called Jesse
Edie’s mother, Pamela, had told Kaieteur News that she was standing a few steps from where her daughter and grandson were shot. She recalled hearing “a few gunshots and when I watch I see me daughter fall down.”
“…He (suspect) say me grandson trouble he fowl but me grandson don’t trouble anybody thing. He wasn’t at home, but like when he come home, he wife tell he how my grandson went fighting he fowl and he come out and start arguing over that,” the woman related.
The woman said that she remembered hearing the suspect saying, “…. ‘I gun f*&k all of you up’ and he do exactly that. He went in, collect he gun and shoot like he mad.”
Assing immediately fled the scene and has not returned to the McDoom community since.
A few days after the woman’s death, the Guyana Police Force issued a wanted bulletin for the 43-year-old Assing for murder.
It is not clear how long the suspect has been hiding out at the Albouystown location where he was reportedly picked up on Monday night.
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