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Riverview resident remanded for O’Riley’s murder
The gunman who is alleged to have fatally shot O’Riley Small was yesterday remanded to prison after
Morris Prince
being charged with his murder.
Appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts was 31-year-old Morris ‘Max’ Prince, of Lot 58 Public Road, Riverview, Georgetown. It is alleged that on March 19, at Smyth Street, Georgetown, Prince murdered Small.
The accused, who was represented by attorney Mark Waldron, was remanded to prison until April 14, when the matter will be called for reports.
Waldron made a request for his client to be given a speedy trial.
According to reports, the 31-year-old Small of Lot 2 Smyth Street had just entered the front gate of his yard after returning from a popular night spot.
Small was reportedly walking through a dark pathway at the side of the house to get to the back of the property when a man, dressed in a hooded T-shirt, confronted him.
He was shot nine times at close range with a firearm that used .40 ammunition, and which left gaping holes in his chest, stomach, back, neck, jaw, thigh and one of his hands. The cause of death was given as shock and haemorrhage.
Small is no stranger to law enforcement.
In January 2010, Small was shot when a gunman opened fire and killed one of his friends, Vibert Weekes, a short distance away from the popular “Red Dragon” night club on Robb Street. There are reports that a bet of
Executed: O’Riley Small
$100,000 made between Small and the gunman had cost Weekes his life.
Two years later, in January 2012, he was remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge.
The allegation was that on January 9 of that year, with intent to commit murder, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded New York-based Guyanese, Felix Alleyne, who lost one of his kidneys after being shot. That case was subsequently dismissed after Alleyne refused to testify.
In June 2012, Small was shot three times at a football match by a gunman who approached him from behind. In November 2013, he was among three who were jointly charged with break and enter and larceny committed on Central Electronics located on Robb Street, Georgetown.
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