Kwame McCoy arrested for Crum-Ewing murder

Feb 18, 2016 News

Investigators probing the murder of social activist Courtney Crum-Ewing have arrested former Press

Kwame McKOY

Officer at the Office of the President under the PPP government, Kwame McCoy.
McCoy was arrested yesterday after he turned himself in to police at the Criminal Investigations Headquarters, Eve Leary.
This was after police had visited his Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara residence to arrest him.
McCoy is now the fourth person to be arrested for the week after investigators reopened their probe into the March 10, 2015 murder of Crum-Ewing.
Earlier this week police had arrested former Office of the President staffer Jason Abdulla, self confessed hit man, Sean Hinds and Okenny Fraser.
A reliable source close to the investigations said that detectives are obtaining vital information from the persons in custody.
This newspaper understands that McCoy has been fingered by one of those persons.
The source could not say if anyone else is on the police radar for the Crum-Ewing shooting.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspects are being held at different police locations and that the authorities may be approaching the court to have them in extended custody since their stipulated time of detention is fast running out.
Police have already charged Reagan Rodrigues called ‘Grey Boy’ for the murder. But investigators were

Courtney Crum-Ewing

always convinced that others were involved in the hit.
One of the men in custody, Sean Hinds, had in some explosive television interviews, fingered McCoy and Abdulla as being involved in the murder.
However, under subsequent questioning by police, Hinds remained mum until he was released after being in custody for 72 hours.
Crum-Ewing was gunned down on March 10, 2015 while using a loud hailer in the Diamond community, urging persons to vote out the People’s Progressive Party.
His murder which was always seen as politically motivated, outraged many Guyanese, who put pressure on the police to leave no stone unturned to find and prosecute his killers.