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Jamaican nabbed at border for Manu Durant killing

Jun 08, 2015 News

Police have detained a Jamaican national in connection with the gunning down of Manu Durant in the Baroombar Strip Club last Thursday.
A police release stated that the suspect was arrested last Saturday at Eteringbang, Cuyuni River.
Kaieteur News understands that the alleged shooter was identified as Ronald Malcolm, 33, a Jamaican who resides in Kitty. He reportedly arrived in Guyana about a week ago.
Durant, a popular figure who was well known to law enforcement authorities, succumbed at the Balwant Singh Hospital, a few hours after another man pumped two bullets into his chest, following a heated argument inside the Barroombar in North Road.
The incident occurred around 04:30 hours, just when the bar was about to be closed for business.
Police in a press statement said that Durant, of Atlantic Ville, East Coast Demerara, was involved in an argument with another man, during which he was shot to his chest.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
While police had detained a few persons shortly after the shooting, they are looking for another man who is only known to them as ‘Lion’.
Details of the incident were initially sketchy, as persons associated with the bar remained tightlipped. However a police source told this newspaper that Durant became annoyed after being told by the suspect that the music had to be turned off.
According to the source, an upset Durant, who had a glass with liquor in his hand, approached the man and began arguing with him.
The brief exchange of words escalated and led to Durant whipping out a gun from his waist and discharging a round which narrowly missed the man with whom he was arguing.
He did not cater for the man having a gun too.
A few seconds later, the man pulled out a gun and aimed it at Durant’s chest and squeezed the trigger several times, sending the bullets into Durant’s body. The man then calmly walked out of the bar, while Durant lay motionless on the floor.
Durant, who was at one time linked to the infamous phantom squad, is no stranger to violence, having cheated death a few times before.
In 2002, he narrowly escaped a vicious attack by gunmen in his home village of Buxton, when he was forced to run and leave his car behind with a friend inside. The car was set on fire after the gunmen summarily executed his friend.
Then in February 2008, police issued a wanted bulletin for Durant, in connection with the disappearance of Tenisha Morgan, the girlfriend of the late notorious Buxton gang leader Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins.
Durant subsequently turned himself in with his lawyer but was later set free.
In 2009, Durant was standing with friends outside the Wild Berry Night Club in Kitty, when two men on a motorcycle rode up to him and one of them shot him behind the right ear from close range.

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