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Craig murder…Suspect tells cops victim’s death was a ‘wuk’
A 21-year-old man who was taken into custody shortly after Purcell Junior Moore was gunned down at Craig Old Road on Wednesday, has admitted his involvement in the murder and claimed that the victim’s death was a “wuk.”
Kevin Persaud told investigators at the Grove Police Station that he had only accompanied the two other suspects on the “wuk.” He claimed that he was not the one who pulled the trigger.
Kaieteur News was informed that he has given investigators the names of the two other persons who were with him at the scene. One of those individuals is 20-year-old Wayne Chester of Lot 20 Friendship, East Bank Demerara.
While the suspects took a small gold chain from their victim, investigators at this point are trying to figure out whether the “wuk” was an execution or a robbery. Persaud’s hands were swabbed for gun powder residue.
Up to press time, investigators were trying to locate the two other suspects.
Moore was killed after being cornered by a group of men, a short distance from the home of his child mother, where he had been staying.
The victim, who lived in Cayenne, French Guiana with his wife and two children, came to Guyana for the birth of his son.
According to reports, Moore was returning home from a shop when the suspects, one of whom was armed with a handgun, confronted him.
An argument reportedly erupted between Moore and the suspects. This escalated into a scuffle, during which the individual with the gun discharged several rounds at Moore, shooting him in the right side of the chest before fleeing.
Moore was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police found two spent shells from a small calibre handgun on the scene.
His father, Purcell Moore (Senior), said that his son went to visit his mother around 06:45 hrs on Wednesday and then left to buy bananas at a nearby shop.
Purcell Moore
Suspect: Kevin Persaud
Wanted: Wayne Chester
“After he left, I hear two gunshots around the area where my son staying, but I wasn’t sure what was going on,” Mr. Moore, a former policeman, said.
He added that shortly after, someone came to the home and informed him that his son had been shot.
“We call a taxi and went straight to the hospital and my son said, ‘My father, I am not here. I am gone’ and he died.”
According to the elderly man, his son had two wounds and blood was gushing from both.
“I don’t know what happened, but like my son didn’t get the banana and he was going back home when the three men attacked him. I hear he punched one of them and the one with the gun shoot him,” Moore said.
Kaieteur News understands that the slain man was once a prominent insurance agent.
The police are appealing to persons with information on the whereabouts of Wayne Chester and the other suspect to make contact with the nearest police station.
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