North Ruimveldt execution…Slain man may be linked to Pearl robbery attempt

Sep 03, 2016 News

Police are trying to ascertain if executed South Ruimveldt resident Mark Anthony was one of the men who escaped a dragnet at Pearl, East Bank Demerara last month, when robbery suspect Seon Clarke was shot dead by residents.

Mark Anthony

Kaieteur News understands that a man that was arrested after Clarke was killed had said that an individual knows as ‘QQ’, was with him and Clarke.
Police had recovered a firearm and two cell phones that were allegedly handed over by the suspect.
Anthony, 22, called ‘QQ,’ was gunned down in Layou Street, North Ruimveldt, shortly after 22.15 hrs on Thursday, by two men who escaped in a car.
Police said that Anthony, of South Ruimveldt, was sitting on a bench in Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt, when two men with guns approached him.
Eyewitnesses said that Clarke fled into an alley before running into Layou Street, North Ruimveldt. He then reportedly jumped a fence and entered an empty lot, where the gunmen caught up with him and shot him in the chest and back.
The gunmen then fled in a car.
Anthony was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Police recovered two 9mm shells from the scene.
FREED
Anthony was freed just last April on firearm and ammunition charges.
Anthony, Andrew Davis Hescott, 35, of Middle Road La Penitence and 27-year-old Ryan Hescott had the charges against them dismissed after the prosecution had failed to tender the firearms to the court on several occasions.
The first charge had alleged that on December 5, last, at Robb Street, Georgetown, they had in their possession seven rounds of ammunition without being the holders of firearm licences. It was further alleged that the men had two firearms in their possession, when they were not holders of licences.
The three men, along with now-dead Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal Aaron Eastman, were jointly charged with the offences.
Lance Corporal Eastman who had 10 years of service in GDF died on March 3, after he was burnt to death during the Camp Street Prison fire, which claimed the lives of 17 inmates.
According to reports, on December 5, 2015 police ranks during ‘Operation Dragnet’ stopped a motorcar on Robb Street, after observing its occupants acting in a suspicious manner. They conducted a search of the vehicle, which was reported to be bearing an obscure number plate. The lawmen allegedly unearthed guns and ammunition hidden in various parts of the car.
It was reported that concerned citizens saw the defendants in a motor car on Robb Street, acting in a suspicious manner. Police were summoned and cornered the vehicle, driven by the soldier. At the time the GDF rank was reportedly wearing a black ‘hoodie’. The vehicle was searched and the police reportedly found a .32 revolver with matching rounds under the front passenger’s seat and a 12 gauge sawn-off shotgun from under the driver’s seat.
When the quartet made their first court appearance on September 8, 2015, Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan had remanded them to prison.

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