A taxi driver was this morning charged and remanded over the murder of Ronald Smith, the Trans Guyana Airways baggage handler who was in May gunned down during a robbery.
43-year-old Allistair Naughtan of Phase 2 East La Penitence Squatting Area, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan read the murder in the furtherance of a robbery charge to him. He was not required to plead to the charge which states that on May 28 at Camp Street, Georgetown, he murdered Ronald Omar Smith during the course of furtherance of a robbery.
The taxi driver has been remanded until July 6.
Enquiries by police revealed that the victim made several stops via car conducting business in and out of the city on the day he was shot and killed. The police had said that the man was in the company of a miner who was driving him in motor car PZZ 6065.
Smith made a sale of gold and placed the $437,000 received in a haversack and went to visit his girlfriend.
After the visit, Smith and his girlfriend were standing in front of the Impeccable Beauty salon, when they were confronted by the suspects who came from an unknown direction.
The pillion rider dismounted and discharged two rounds at Smith, who fell to the ground. The suspect then took away Smith’s haversack containing cash, and with his accomplice, escaped north on Camp Street.
Smith was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he died while receiving medical attention. When his body was examined, three circular wounds were seen to the upper left shoulder, the middle region of the stomach, and another in his right armpit.
