Police last night captured 19-year-old Linden Roberts called ‘Travis’, who had been on the run since the killing his 14-year-old lover back in March at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.
Police responding to a report cornered Roberts on a street in Mc Doom, EBD and shot him around three times in both legs. He was in a stable condition at the Georgetown Hospital last night under police guard after undergoing x-ray and other treatment.
Back in March Roberts allegedly shot 14-year-old Donnis King at her parents’ Bagotstown home during an argument. The police had said that investigations disclosed that King had a relationship with the Roberts. The couple had an altercation during which she expressed a desire to end the relationship and was shot.
Police had issued a wanted bulletin for the suspect but he evaded them and on Tuesday he allegedly shot an ex-policeman on Laing Avenue. The ex-policeman, Toney Williams, and a friend were sitting on a bridge in Laing when Roberts reportedly approached them and opened fire.
According to reports, it was just after 7 pm when two men approached Williams and his friend and one pointed a gun at the neck of his friend. Williams reportedly pushed the other man and ran, but several shots were fired in his direction hitting him in his upper left leg and on one of
his thumbs. Williams ran to his sister-in-law’s James Street, Albouystown residence and was later taken to the hospital.
Meanwhile, following the March 23, shooting of King, the teenager was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital and was admitted to the High Dependency Unit after emergency surgery. She remained there for two months before succumbing on May 23.
Stabroek News was told that Roberts had long been a questionable character. On the night of the shooting he reportedly visited King at her home around 8 and got upset after she spurned his advances. He reacted by pulling a gun and threatening to use it.
King later told this newspaper on her hospital bed that she had nothing serious with the young man but he, “had it bad for me.”
She had said he constantly visited even after she had told him that she was no longer interested.
On the night she was shot, King had said, she was sitting in front of her home when he turned up. They spoke briefly during which time she had told him that there was nothing between them and no chance of anything happening. “I ask he to leave ’cause we ain’t got nothing going and he got another girl too, but he wasn’t taking that. He held onto me and pull a gun and I didn’t want to scream ’cause I ain’t know if he would shoot any of my family who went inside,” the teenager had said.
The girl had said that she tried to remain calm in the hope that the love he claimed to have for her would save her.
He had then released her but the gun was still visible so she took a seat a few inches away, all the while keeping her eyes on the front door.
King said she had been waiting for an opportunity to make a dash for the door and was attempting to do so when she was shot in the abdomen. After shooting her Roberts fled and has been in hiding since.
