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Fifth Street Alberttown killing… Accused told cops that victim was shot during confrontation over robbery
Accused: Lawrence Wayne
Accused murderer, Lawrence Wayne, had given police an ordinary statement outlining the series of events which led to the shooting of Dexter Lindo in August 2014.
Lindo, 26, of Shell Road, Kitty, was shot on August 23, 2014, at Alberttown, Georgetown.
He was allegedly shot three times and succumbed days later, at the Balwant Singh Hospital.
Beverage outlet proprietor, Lawrence Wayne, was subsequently arrested and charged for the murder.
He is currently on trial at the Georgetown High Court before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a mixed jury.
In an ordinary statement, which was tendered to the court through a police witness, this past week, Wayne allegedly told police that on the day of the incident, he shot Dexter Lindo during a confrontation, which occurred after a robbery that had taken place at his beverage bar.
Wayne told the police that he received a telephone call that someone had robbed his place of business. He said that armed men had entered his Beverage Paradise stall at Merriman’s Mall, Bourda.
Wayne, a licensed firearm holder at the time, told the cops that he arrived in time to see the men, who escaped in a vehicle, fleeing the store.
The accused recounted to the police that he followed the men in his vehicle and eventually caught up with them at Light and Fifth Streets, Alberttown.
Wayne is said to have confronted one of the men (Lindo) and told him to “freeze.”
He recalled that Lindo had already exited the car and entered a shop in the area, when the alleged robber turned and pulled a gun from his waist.
Wayne said that he in turn, opened fire on the man and injured him in the process.
Wayne’s case is set to be concluded this week.
He had vehemently denied the allegations of murder before the court. The businessman was previously discharged of the murder but the charges were reinstituted shortly afterwards.
At present, the matter is being presented by State Attorneys Tamieka Clarke and Mandel Moore in the High Court.
The accused is represented by Attorneys-at-law Max McKay and Stanley Moore.
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