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Woman remanded for murder of female security guard
Kaieteur News – Twenty-year-old Shemika Gibson, of North East La Penitence, Georgetown, was on Friday remanded to prison for the murder of a 21-year-old security guard of East La Penitence Squatting Area.
Carol Davidson.
Gibson appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly. She was not required plead to the indictable charge which alleges that on June 6, at East Ruimveldt Squatting Area, Georgetown, she murdered Davidson, a mother of two.
Senior Magistrate Daly remanded Gibson to prison and the matter was adjourned to June 21, 2022. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) reported that Davidson was murdered around 10:24hrs on the day in question at East Ruimveldt Squatting Area, in the vicinity of Brickdam Secondary School Bridge. According to the police, on June 5, as a result of an old misunderstanding, Davidson was involved in a fight. On Monday, June 3, around 10:00 hours, Davidson was imbibing alcohol with a group of friends in a yard in the vicinity of Brickdam Secondary School Bridge, when the suspects: three females ages 20, 28 and 29, and a 28-year-old male, all of North East La Penitence Squatting Area, entered the yard and attacked Davidson with several pieces of wood.
A scuffle ensued and Davidson was dealt several lashes about her body by the suspects. In an attempt to flee the assault, Davidson ran around the house but the suspects pursued her. According to the police, one of the suspects was seen with a knife in her right hand, while they ran out of the yard making good their escape. Kaieteur News understands that Davidson was found lying face down on the ground with a stab wound to her chest. She was picked up in an unconscious state and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was seen by a doctor who pronounced her dead. Davidson’s body was taken to the Memorial Garden’s Mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination. The four suspects were all apprehended by police, and the 20-year-old woman was subsequently charged with the capital offence.
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