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– alleged female eyewitness overseas
Police were last night still awaiting word as to whether city businessman Rondy Jagdeo is to be charged in connection with the murder of Kirk Davis.
Dead: Kirk Davis
Murder suspect:
Rondy Jagdeo
Kaieteur News was told yesterday that investigators are optimistic that they have enough evidence to lay charges against the 28-year-old Alexander Village resident. However, police officials have declined to say what that evidence might be.
While there are reports that at least two individuals saw the gunman kill Davis, it is unclear whether any of the eyewitnesses are assisting the police.
Investigators have received information that one of the eyewitnesses is a woman who was accidentally shot in the foot after accompanying the gunman to the scene.
However, Kaieteur News understands that the woman is overseas and is unlikely to give evidence in the matter. Police had said that she has refused to cooperate with them.
Despite the arrest of the prime suspect, relatives of the slain biker said that they were not optimistic that justice will be served.
“He (the suspect) has now come forward and said that he didn’t do it and that he feared for his life,” a close relative told Kaieteur News yesterday. “Who threatened him?”
Jagdeo’s lawyer, attorney-at-law Roger Yearwood, alleged on Monday that his client had been receiving death threats and is concerned about his safety.
Davis’ relatives also expressed concern that police did not inform them that Jagdeo had been detained. “They never contacted us to say they have him, and what the next step would be.”
According to the relative, the family had tried to contact a senior police official after Davis was slain, but never got a response.
The relative also complained that after Jagdeo’s arrest, he saw the suspect “standing in the yard (at the Brickdam Police Station) like a normal person,” before being taken to some other location.
Jagdeo, who was accompanied by attorneys Roger Yearwood and Mark Waldron, surrendered at the Ruimveldt Police Station around 15:00 hrs on Monday.
Kaieteur News understands that Jagdeo denied any involvement in Davis’s death, which is said to have stemmed from a dispute over a woman. Police had issued a wanted bulletin for the suspect, while checking on reports that he was in Suriname.
The 31-year-old Davis, of Seventh Street, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was riddled with bullets on Tuesday, September 5, outside his residence by a man who called him out of his home.
There are reports that after the first bullets struck him, Davis tried to run back inside his house, but collapsed after more bullets struck him in the back. The gunman reportedly then stood over Davis and pumped several more bullets into the fallen man. In the end, Davis was shot at least 11 times.
It was reportedly at that point that a woman who was with the gunman was accidentally shot.
Police have received reports that Davis was the victim of a jealous husband, who reacted angrily to a text message that was sent to his wife. It is alleged that threats were also sent to Davis after he allegedly kissed the man’s spouse in a popular night club.
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