Troy James, the Guyanese man who was gunned down in Cayenne, French Guiana almost three weeks ago, sustained five gunshots to the chest, one of which caused the fatal injury, a post-mortem examination has revealed.
Meanwhile, the man’s mother has secured a visa to travel to the French territory to retrieve his body so that it can be returned here for burial.
A Stabroek News source in French Guiana said the police are releasing very little information on Tuesday’s autopsy but confirmed that the man’s mother received her visa recently though they are unsure when she will be arriving in the country. The source said he was told that the French police are awaiting the mother’s arrival so that they can gather some more information which would aid them in their investigation.
Police are still looking for James’ brother, who they believe carried out the attack on James and they are still treating the case as a family dispute.
The police say that they are “almost certain” that James died at the hands of his brother. Both brothers were known to the police in that country.
They also had several run-ins with the law while living in Guyana. The circumstances of the shooting are still unclear but this newspaper has been told that the two brothers had a falling out. They were both residing in French Guiana illegally.
Press officer Lieutenant-Colonel Laperle from the Central Gendarmerie has said James was killed in Remire-Montjoly, a town in the suburb of Cayenne, on November 10.
The killing took place less than ten metres from a soccer field, where young players of a local team-–USL Montjoly–-were training. The coach, former international French goalkeeper Bernard Lama, was leading the training sessions and he was the one who contacted the police. According to the officer, most of the players did not hear the gunshots.
