Wanted man, Royden Durant, who is charged with the murder of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal Ivor Williams was captured by police at Sophia yesterday.
Durant, along with Sherwin Nero, known as Shawn Moses and ‘Catty’ of Dennis Street, Sophia, Cecil Simone Rambarran called ‘Uncle Magic’ and ‘Limpy’ and Guyana’s most wanted Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins have been charged for the January 23 killing. Nero appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday and was remanded while arrest warrants were issued for the others.
A police press release said that around midday yesterday, the lawmen arrested 20-year-old Durant in a Sophia house. Police said that he was also wanted for questioning in a number of other murders which are under investigation.
Williams was shot and killed by armed gunmen in Buxton, East Coast Demerara earlier this year. Reports are that around 8:30 pm on the day in question several armed men ambushed a GDF vehicle returning to Camp Ayanganna from an administrative run in Berbice. The gunmen engaged the soldiers on the Railway Embankment Road between Church of God and Company roads, during which Williams was fatally shot and two others, a soldier and a Friendship woman, were injured.
