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Man confesses to killing Brazilian, Guyanese at Konawaruk

Oct 02, 2015 News

A Barama resident who was nabbed at Mahdia with an illegal firearm last Wednesday has reportedly confessed to two separate killings at Konawaruk, Potaro.
Police sources said that the suspect, identified as Mark Atkinson, 36, admitted to shooting and killing Devon Anderson, 30, at Blackwater Landing, Konawaruk, Potaro in June 2014.
Persons in the area had reportedly heard the two men arguing just before Anderson was shot.
The detained man has also reportedly admitted to beating a Brazilian to death at Konawaruk, Potaro this year. He reportedly told detectives that he was fighting with the Brazilian who fell and struck his head on a tree trunk.
A postmortem showed that the victim sustained blunt trauma to the head.
A release issued on Wednesday stated that police had arrested a man at Mowasie Backdam, Mahdia, who was wanted for questioning during investigations into two separate murders at Konawaruk and Mowasie Backdam.
An unlicensed .38 revolver with six rounds was found in his possession. Ballistic tests are to be conducted to determine whether the firearm was used in any killings.
“We have had our eye on him for some time,” a police official said. “We have him on the two murders and we are questioning him further on the murders of the two Brazilians (found dead at Cuyuni) and other murders.”
The bodies of Jose Carlos Barbosa Araujo and Adonias Ferreira were recovered from a swamp late Aramau Backdam, Cuyuni River last month. One of the bodies bore gunshot wounds and the other incised wounds.
According to reports, the men left their worksite in the Oku mining area, Cuyuni, on Tuesday, September 15, on an ATV. They were said to have been heading to Bartica to purchase spares for an excavator.
The ATV has not been recovered.

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