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Ex-soldier, ‘Lil Mark’ executed with same gun – police
Ballistic tests by the police have revealed that former army officer Denzil Mingo was executed with a firearm that was used in another execution-style killing three years ago.
Dexter Marshall
A top police official confirmed yesterday that the gun used in Mingo’s execution last month was also used in the murder of Mark Caesar, called ‘Lil Mark’, who was gunned down in Broad Street in October, 2010.
Eyewitnesses said that 21-year-old Mingo and two friends had just entered Mingo’s car after leaving the Edge Night Club in Main Street when a gunman walked up to the vehicle and riddled him with bullets. One of the friends, Joseph Barker, was also shot multiple times but survived the attack.
Mingo was a former Second Lieutenant of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). No one was ever detained for his murder.
In the other execution-style killing, 31-year-old Mark Caesar, called called ‘Lil Mark’, of Lot 81 St. Stephen Street and Ogle, East Coast Demerara, was riddled with bullets by three men in a white car while he was sitting on a fire hydrant in the vicinity of Broad and Adelaide Streets, Charlestown on October 1, 2010.
A postmortem revealed that he had been shot 12 times. Police reportedly recovered two .45 shells at the scene.
That same month, Dexter Marshall, of Lot 8 Front Road, West Ruimveldt, was charged with Caesar’s murder,
Denzil Mingo
after a brother of Caesar’s identified Marshall as one of the killers. However, last February, a 12-member mixed jury found him not guilty.
But in a bizarre turn of events last October, Marshall took his own life by suddenly plunging into a trench in front of his West Front Road home.
A relative had said that Marshall’s strange behaviour started soon after he was released from prison.
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