Bread vendor murder…Extension requested as cops continue to interrogate soldier

May 13, 2017 News

Investigators believe that they might be able to crack the murder of bread vendor Andre Alexander very soon, with the arrest of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank. However, a key element to link the soldier’s involvement in the murder

Dead: Andre Alexander

of Alexander is still outstanding, and this is a motorcycle, but police ranks are having a hard time in getting information about the whereabouts of the CG motorcycle.
They are confident that the soldier is in possession of one such motorcycle since traffic ranks at Turkeyen Police Station recalled that they had pulled him in on numerous occasions for riding the cycle without proper documentation.
“One time he (soldier) said he didn’t have a bike and when the boys (ranks) tell he that they see he with a bike, he said it is his friend motorcycle, but we are not finding the bike or the person who owns it,” a detective said yesterday.
Alexander was shot in the stomach by one of two gunmen on a motorcycle two Fridays ago during a robbery at ‘C’ Field Sophia, Georgetown.
The GDF rank was arrested after the cops received a tip-off on Monday night. The description the police received of one of the gunmen matched that of the soldier.
The soldier is a 20-year-old Section ‘B’ Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident. He and a Plum Park, South Sophia resident were arrested hours apart. Both men are known to each other.
Alexander, of Lot 394 ‘C’ Field Sophia, died around 23:00 hrs two Fridays ago during surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The attack occurred around 20.30 hrs at the victim’s bread stand, which is situated about four doors from his home.
Police said that Alexander was at his bread stand when the two men rode up on a motorcycle. The pillion rider requested three loaves of bread and paid with a $5000 note.
Kaieteur News understands that while Alexander was in the process of making change, the ‘customer’ whipped out a gun and demanded cash. When Alexander put up a fight, the robber discharged two rounds, one of which struck the vendor in the stomach.
The two men relieved their victim of his cash and also escaped with three loaves of bread.
The dead man’s wife, Beverley Alexander recalled that she was at the stand when the two bandits approached her husband and shot him when he resisted.
”After (the pillion rider) collected the bread, my husband was making change to give him when he pulled out a gun and demanded the cash. So my husband tried to push away the gun and the man fired one shot and when that one missed, he fired another shot,” the woman noted.
She further related that when she heard the first shot, she ran for her life.
“I run behind the stand and when I see the other suspect coming, I start run.” The bandits did not try to rob the other customers at the stand.
Beverley Alexander said that after the bandits escaped, she ran to her husband and found him lying on a bench. He was rushed to the hospital where he subsequently succumbed.

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