Police crack Lusignan cosmetologist’s murder… Getaway driver leads investigators to shooter

Sep 04, 2014 News

Ashmini Hariram

After almost two months of painstaking investigations, detectives on the East Coast of Demerara have managed to secure confessions from two men who were responsible for the murder of 19-year-old Ashmini Harriram at Lusignan in early July.

They yesterday arrested the shooter and the driver of the car that he fled in after shooting Harriram and taking her cellular phone.

Harriram, a cosmetologist, was about six houses away from her Lot 9, Lusignan Railway Embankment home when the killer emerged from what eyewitnesses described as a burgundy-coloured vehicle and shot her at close range to the right side of the head.

According to reports reaching this newspaper, detectives managed to locate the driver with the burgundy-coloured car in the city and he admitted that he was there when Harriram was shot.

He told investigators that he had picked up the shooter whose name was given as Lennox Wayne called ‘two colours’ in the city and was asked to take him to see his girlfriend on the East Coast of Demerara.

The driver claimed that while they were in Lusignan, his passenger Wayne, saw two females and asked him to stop the vehicle. One of the women was Harriram.

The driver said that Wayne approached the two women and a few seconds later he heard a gunshot and Wayne hurriedly re-entered the car and ordered him to drive. They headed back to the city where Wayne exited the car.

Kaieteur News was unable to ascertain why the driver did not report the matter to the police.

However, yesterday he led investigators to Wayne, a resident of Leopold Street, Charlestown, who was promptly arrested.

“We never gave up on this case. We knew that we would solve it,” a police source told this newspaper.

The source said that Wayne admitted that he was the shooter and he and the driver are expected to be placed before the courts.

Questions were raised as to the motive of the killing which did not initially appear to be a robbery. The slain teen was wearing a gold chain at the time, but the gunman reportedly made no attempt to relieve her of the jewellery.