America St. money-changer murder PI Prosecution to call final witness

Nov 13, 2018 News

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of America Street money-changer Shawn Nurse continued yesterday before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Yesterday an eyewitness, Sabash Moonsammy, went into the witness box where he gave evidence in the matter. Moonsammy spoke about the role he played in the investigation and he was thereafter cross examined by one of the defendants’ lawyers.
Shawn Nurse, called ‘Fabulous’ was shot and killed while plying his trade on America Street.
Kerwin Dos Santos, George Hope, both 24, of Freeman Street, La Penitence, Georgetown, and Kacey Heyliger, 23, of Kitty, are jointly charged with the offence and are currently on remand for Nurse’s murder.
It is alleged that on February 4, last, at America Street, Georgetown, they murdered Nurse, during the course or furtherance of a robbery.
Police Prosecutor Shellon Daniels, who is representing the state, is expected to call the final witness, Kimberly Jupiter, to testify in the PI.
The matter was adjourned until November 15 for continuation.
According to reports, Nurse, of Apartment 33 Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot during a struggle with a gunman, who was attempting to relieve him of a large sum of foreign and local currency.
The father of three died at the scene, while his killer fled with an undisclosed sum of cash and a quantity of gold jewellery.
According to the police, Nurse was shot to the left cheek just below the eye by an identifiable male dressed in a red hoodie and brown three-quarter pants, who then escaped on foot via Avenue of the Republic and Charlotte Street. A 9mm spent shell was recovered at the scene.
In October of 2017, Hope was arrested by police after he was suspected to be involved in the murder of 58-year-old Fazal Shaheed, who was shot and killed during an invasion at his family home in East La Penitence on September 24, 2017.
A few weeks after that killing, Hope was arraigned in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where he was remanded for allegedly being in possession of 736 grams of marijuana for trafficking.
According to reports, a party of policemen descended on the East La Penitence home, where Hope was allegedly seen standing next to a barrel, which when searched, contained a haversack with leaves and seeds of a marijuana plant.

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