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“Wrong policeman I killed” – suspect admits to killing TSU rank
A twenty seven year old Kitty resident has confessed to killing TSU Constable Michael Cumberbatch, who was shot on Monday night at Sophia. Kaieteur News was told that the alleged shooter has told police investigators that Cumberbatch was not his intended target. This newspaper was told that Cumberbatch’s reputed wife identified the suspect positively yesterday during an identification parade.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect has told investigators that he went to the
TSU Constable
Michael Cumberbatch
wrong house. “Apparently he is accusing another policeman of being in a relationship with his wife…but went to the wrong house” the police source explained. This newspaper was further t old that the suspect has told investigators that he was told that policeman was living in Sophia with his wife who is an Amerindian. Coincidentally Cumbertbatch’s wife is an Amerindian. However the suspect went to the wrong house.
The suspect is expected to be taken to court by Friday.
Kaieteur News understands that the suspect, who was previously charged with armed robbery, admitted that he was in the North Sophia area on Monday night, but denied that he shot Constable Cumberbatch.
Two associates of the suspect were also taken into custody on Tuesday. Police had detained three other individuals on Monday night, but it is unclear whether they are still in custody.
Residents have told investigators that they saw the suspect “walking up and down” in the North Sophia area on Monday prior to the murder, and that the suspect had been enquiring about someone called ‘Quacy.’
The dead man’s reputed wife had told Kaieteur News that she was at home with her husband and children on Monday night when someone knocked at the door and asked for ‘Quacy.’
The woman said that she told the visitor, whose hair was braided, that no one by the name of ‘Quacy’ lived there, and the visitor left. But she said that the man returned ten minutes later and again banged on the door while asking for ‘Quacy.’ By this time, the family had gone to bed.
Mrs. Cumberbatch said that she looked outside and observed that the visitor appeared to be drunk. She told her husband what she had observed, and Cumberbatch went outside to the visitor and ordered the man to leave. According to her, the stranger asked “who you talking to?”… “and then Michael (Constable Cumberbatch) said ‘what you got in your hand?’ She then heard gunshots.
On looking outside, Mrs. Cumberbatch said that she saw her husband lying on the ground and the alleged killer fleeing the scene. The wounded policeman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he succumbed.
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