Tucville fatal shooting…Police await advice from DPP

Aug 26, 2016 News

The police are awaiting the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) before they proceed to charge a man, who is alleged to have opened fire when a car turned on the bridge of his Tucville, Georgetown premises, killing a father of one and wounding a female, on Tuesday night.
Yesterday, a police official said that the suspect, who is presently in custody, will most likely be charged with murder and attempted murder.
Charges can be laid as early as tomorrow—depending on the time the file is returned to the police.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect, who has been identified as a contractor, claimed that he thought persons wanting to kill him were in the tinted car, hence he opened fire.
The suspect alleged that he and a few persons had an argument earlier on Tuesday and the men had threatened to return and “finish him off.”
When he noticed a heavily-tinted car on his bridge around 21:20 hrs on Tuesday, he thought that the men had returned to make good their threat, so he decided to open fire first in an effort to save himself.
However, the occupants of the car were not Benn’s would-be attackers. They were 24-year-old Colin Perreira of Barr Street, Kitty and 22-year-old Gail Ann Chacon.
Perreira was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, while Chacon is said to be in a stable condition.
Kaieteur News was told that Perreira and Chacon worked for the same person, and at the time of the shooting, the man was dropping his co-worker home. The woman lives a few houses away from the alleged shooter.
The injured woman’s uncle, Peter Jeffrey had said that they were at home and heard rapid gunshots and his grandchildren rushed out of the yard to see what was happening.
“They see this boy (Perreira) coming and he said he get shoot and I asked him where is Gail, and he said that she in the car, and me and her father rushed to the car and pulled her out,” Jeffrey recalled.
He explained that while they were trying to get his niece out of the vehicle, the suspect was standing there with his gun in his hands.
According to Jeffrey, the shooter was telling persons at the scene that he had a problem with someone who threatened to kill him. “He said that when he saw the tinted car, he thought it was the persons who wanted to kill him.”

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