Guyanese man wanted in connection with 2016 Kaieteur News attack killed in Suriname

A Guyanese man wanted in connection with a failed grenade attack in his home country seven years ago, was shot and killed execution-style on Sunday in a suburb of the capital, Paramaribo.

His girlfriend was taken into police custody.

The preliminary police investigation revealed that Shemar Wilson was about to leave an apartment complex in Kwatta with his girlfriend when two men opened fire on him and then fled the scene. Wilson was hit in the head, abdomen, arms, and legs but the woman was unharmed.

It was later revealed that a gold chain Wilson was wearing at the time of the shooting has disappeared as well as a bag containing a large quantity of cash.

Police arrested his girlfriend because of contradictory statements she made about the incident. She was questioned and subsequently detained by the Capital Offenses Department which is charged with further investigation.

According to residents, two men in a gray Toyota Vitz were moving suspiciously near the apartment complex before the shooting. One man reportedly pursued the shooters’ getaway car but lost sight of the vehicle.

Wilson had been accused of conspiring with three men to carry out a grenade attack at Kaieteur News in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, on June 3, 2016.

The other three men were captured and are before the courts for the crime but Wilson had eluded lawmen.

He fled to French Guiana after that incident and was wanted there for murder as well but somehow managed to give law enforcement officials the slip and was hiding out in Suriname.

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