Latest update January 17th, 2025 6:30 AM
Suspect in restaurant owner’s killing still in custody
The suspect that police have detained for the murder of restaurant owner Zhenjz Su remained in custody yesterday, with police remaining tight-lipped on whether they have been able to link him to last Friday’s brutal home invasion.
Murdered restaurant owner: Zhenjz Su
It is also unclear whether investigators have received any response to the $2M reward that some businessmen have posted for information leading to the arrest of the businessman’s killers.
Left at the scene, was the cutlass with which the owner of the Jade Stone Restaurant was hacked to death, and a piece of wood that may have been used to club his wife, Fei Su.
Police hope to retrieve valuable forensic evidence from both ‘weapons.’
Zhenjz Su, 35, was found bound, gagged and hacked to death in his restaurant kitchen at around 03.00 hrs last Friday.
There are reports that the intruders killed Su after he refused to open a money-safe for them. However, they made off with the day’s sales.
The intruders also inflicted a savage beating on the businessman’s wife, 32-year-old Fei Su, who was attacked in her bedroom. She remains hospitalised.
The victims have five dogs, but no one apparently heard the animals barking while the family was under attack. The bandits had also tampered with surveillance cameras on the property.
According to a police official, the killers gained entry through a door in the bottom flat that the business couple had mistakenly left open. Zhenjz Su, a source said, would close the restaurant at around 21:00 hrs and attend to customers through that door.
After killing Mr. Su, the bandits then headed to the upper flat, attacking Fei Su, the wife, in her bedroom and beating her into a state of unconsciousness.
She later found her husband’s body.
The businessmen who posted the $2M reward said that they were angered over the killing and other brutal attacks on the business community and ordinary civilians.
“We are sending out a strong message to those who think that they can just come into our business places and homes and rob and kill,” one of the businessmen told Kaieteur News.
“We will not sit back and let that happen.”
On June 5, Ganesh Ramlall, the owner of Regent Multiplex Mall, was riddled with bullets by bandits in his La Jalousie home, West Coast Demerara.
On June 9, businessman Mohamed Chand and land court Judge Nicola Pierre were battered and robbed in their Felicity, East Coast Demerara home. Mr. Chand lost an eye, while Ms. Pierre suffered a broken jaw.
The men escaped with cash, jewellery and other valuables.
Prior to that, a bandit posing as a passenger shot rice farmer Hardat Kissoon dead in a minibus, after trailing him from a city bank.
And two Saturdays ago, surveillance cameras recorded a young man clubbing, kicking and stomping 77-year-old Carmen Ganesh to death in her home at Montrose, East Coast Demerara.
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