25-year-old Daniel Parris, a gold miner of ‘D’ Field, Sophia, Turkeyen, was today remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of contractor, Peter Gonsalves.
He appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to the charge, which states that on December 7, 2020, at Garnet Street, Kitty, he murdered Peter Gonsalves during the course or furtherance of a robbery.
He was not required to plead to the charge. Hence he was remanded until March 1.
It was reported that Parris was arrested by police last Wednesday after which he confessed to committing to offense.
Parris was previously jailed for 18 months over a violent robbery charge.
In May 2017, he pleaded guilty to robbing Paul Ramdial of a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, value at $140,000, a phone case valued at $4,000 and $50,000 in cash on April, 28, 2017, at High Street, Georgetown, while using personal violence. He was sentenced for the offense.
Further, 28-year-old Kacey Heyliger of 42 Shell Road Kitty, Georgetown was previously charged with the murder of the contractor. The matter is still before the court.
Gonsalves of Pere Street Kitty was killed on December 7, 2020, at about 21:45 hrs on Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty.
Guyana Standard had reported that Gonsalves was riding his motorcycle on Vlissengen Road, and while in the vicinity of Red Bar on Garnett Street, the men rode up and opened fire, hitting the man.
Gonsalves then fell to the ground, and one of the bandits picked up the dead man’s motorcycle and escaped.
When paramedics arrived on the scene, they pronounced the elderly man dead.
Heyliger was charged with the 2018 murder of America Street, Georgetown money changer Shawn Nurse called ‘Fabulous’.
Following a Preliminary Inquiry in the Magistrates’ Courts, the charge against him was discharged due to insufficient evidence.
