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Relatives post $3M reward for arrest of second suspect in businessman’s murder
It’s been seven months since popular businessman Farouk Ghanie Hamid’s body was found with two stab wounds at the back of his Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home, but police have made no progress in tracking down the second suspect.
Police have already charged Floyd Anthony Rammit for the businessman’s murder but they are still to apprehend the second suspect.
Determined that the case will not go unsolved, the businessman’s relatives have posted a $3M reward for the arrest and conviction of the other individual, who look his life.
Police had issued a wanted bulletin for 20-year-old Kemo Tyron Evans of Bagotstown, EBD, and Sophia, Georgetown.
This was after Rammit had provided them with vital information on Hamid’s murder.
It is alleged that Evans along with the businessman’s handyman, Rammit stabbed him to death at the back of his property located at Lot 97 Collingwood Avenue, Nandy Park before robbing him.
After fleeing to the interior, with possible hopes of evading the police, and from being linked to the murder of the businessman, Rammit was arrested in July last, and charged with murder.
He provided police with a detailed statement on how he and Evans robbed Ghanie after staking out the businessman’s residence.
Wanted for Murder: Kemo Tyron Evans
Dead: Farouk Ghanie Hamid
With robbery as their motive, Rammit and two accomplices concealed themselves in Hamid’s yard while waiting for the 56-year-old businessman, who lived alone, to arrive.
Hamid eventually arrived in his Toyota Tundra, and when he entered the yard, one of the robbers clubbed the businessman behind the head with a piece of wood.
The men then dragged Hamid to the side of his yard. Rammit claimed that he then gave one of his accomplices a knife which he had used to cut up dog meat, and the accomplice stabbed his boss twice to the chest.
Removing Hamid’s licensed firearm and keys from the body, the killers then entered his home, ransacked the premises and filled a bag with valuables. They then headed to an area near Hamid’s home where they split up the loot. Rammit said that he then fled to the interior.
On April 16, Hamid’s reputed wife realized that something was amiss after he failed to arrive at her Eccles, East Bank Demerara residence to pick up the couple’s daughter.
After repeatedly failing to reach him by phone, the woman and an employee went to Hamid’s Nandy Park residence, where they found his body at the back of his home. The father of five was lying next to the kennel where he kept his German Shepherd. His firearm and cellular phone were missing, as well as some expensive jewellery he often wore. But detectives found almost a million dollars in the murdered man’s bedroom.
From the outset, detectives had suspected that persons close to Hamid, and who often visited his home, were behind his murder.
Police suspected that the killers were individuals who had previously visited the property and were familiar with the slain man’s dog.
Neighbours had told Kaieteur News that Hamid’s dog would bark continuously whenever anyone passed the businessman’s property.
But they said that they heard no barking around the time that the murder is believed to have occurred.
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