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“I put one shot in he and he fall to the ground…”
Gunman tells cops how he executed Mocha electrician
“I just put one shot in he and he fall to the ground.”
That’s part of the chilling statement that police say they got yesterday from a 21-year-old man, who
Terrence Lanferman
has allegedly confessed to committing an execution-style killing last year as a favour for one of his cousins.
His target was Terrence Lanferman, a 23-year-old electrican, who was gunned down on the night of June 1, 2015, at his Lot 37 Nelson Street, Mocha, East Bank Demerara home. He had gone to answer a knock at his door.
Police have identified his killer as Kenkassie Lynch, of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, who allegedly fled the scene on a motorcycle that was ridden by his cousin.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that ranks from the Major Crimes Unit, acting on information, arrested Lynch, who eventually confessed “after intense interrogation,” to the murder, while also implicating a cousin, who resides in Mocha, East Bank Demerara.
Blanhum said that police are making every effort to locate and apprehend the cousin.
Kaieteur News understands that Lynch told investigators that he carried out the killing a few days after returning from Cayenne, French Guiana, where he had reportedly lived for some three years.
Two days before the murder, he allegedly went to Mocha on a new CG motorcycle, which had no licence plates, to meet some of his relatives.
While there, he spoke with a male cousin, and the two men bought and smoked a ‘spliff.’ They reportedly then disclosed that he and Terrence Lanferman had an ongoing feud, and that he, (the cousin), wanted to end it.
However, the cousin also complained that he was well known and that “Mocha people like talk.”
At that stage, Lynch, the suspect, allegedly told the cousin that he could end the feud that they could go to the intended victim’s house on the CG motorcycle, since it was unregistered.
On Monday, June 1, 2015, Lynch allegedly returned to Mocha and met his cousin. He then went to Nelson Street, located in the same community, to conduct surveillance on Terrence Lanferman’s house, which is located in the bottom flat of a two-storey building.
He then returned to his cousin’s house, and at around 19.00 hours, the cousin allegedly gave him a handgun. The two headed back to Nelson Street on the CG motorcycle.
While the cousin waited in a nearby street, Lynch allegedly went to Lanferman’s residence and knocked on the front door.
Terrence Lanferman opened his front door to greet his visitor, only to be reportedly confronted by the gunman.
“I just put one shot in he and he fall to the ground in the house,” Lynch allegedly told investigators. The two cousins then fled the scene on the motorcycle.
The killer allegedly then gave his cousin the handgun and returned to Eccles.
Lynch is said to have told investigators that his cousin had badly wanted to have Lanferman killed, and had assured Lynch that no one would know that he had committed the execution, since no one in Mocha knew him.
A few residents had reported seeing a man dressed in a “hoodie” run out the yard and jump onto a CG motorbike without number plates before speeding away from the scene, shortly after they heard gunshots.
They said he was clutching a gun at the time but since the area where Lanferman resided has no streetlights, it proved difficult for them to identify who the killer was.
Lanferman’s partner was reportedly at home at the time.
“I don’t know why someone would want to kill he (Lanferman). He don’t be in no ‘vibes’,” one neighbour had said.
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