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Guyanese beheads countryman in Venezuela

Nov 27, 2013 News

Two years after completing a 20-year sentence for killing another man, Mabaruma resident Ivelaw Baird called Junior could soon find himself back in the Camp Street Prison after he turned himself in to local police, a day after allegedly beheading one of his countrymen in Venezuela.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that Baird killed Gordon McLennon of Sugar Hill, North West District, following a misunderstanding at a place called Polvo de Oro (Powder Gold) in the Spanish-speaking neighbouring country.
Polvo de Oro is a gold-rich area located in Venezuela near the Guyana border where a number of Guyanese flock to make a living.
Details are sketchy, but the incident reportedly occurred on Sunday. McLennon’s body has since been brought back to Guyana.
A source in the Mabaruma area told Kaieteur News that the former prisoner related to a relative that McLennon had threatened to kill him.
“He claimed that de man threaten fuh shoot he, so he kill he first. In dat area is the fastest gun does survive,” the source said.
He added that he is not surprised by Baird’s claims, since McLennon has been known to have a history of threatening persons.
Baird was convicted several years ago for the murder of a woman in the North West District. That incident saw Baird attacking the woman with the intention of raping her at gunpoint. At the time the woman was walking with her brother, who valiantly tried to protect his sister. Baird shot them both, but the woman succumbed to her injury.
Baird was also fingered in the murder of a Brazilian woman after a pair of slippers reportedly belonging to him was found in the camp where the woman was killed.
The source at Mabaruma said that several murders involving Guyanese occur at the mining location, but they go unreported since it is not in Guyana’s jurisdiction.
Almost two months ago, Guyanese Orlando Fitzpatrick and his son Jesse were shot dead by Venezuelan soldiers under controversial circumstances.

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