One of the suspects in the murder of Oriley Small, who was gunned down in front of his Smyth Street home last Saturday, was yesterday charged with the crime and was remanded to prison.
Maurice Prince appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, in Georgetown, on a charge that he murdered Small on March 19th at Smyth Street.
Prince was not required to plead and was subsequently remanded to prison until April 14th.
Prince and another suspect, Mark Cromwell, were arrested after Small, 31, called “Smallie,” of Lot 2 Smyth Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, was shot several times after entering his yard.
Small had just entered his yard after returning from a Friday evening ‘hang’ in the city, when he was shot multiple times. A man dressed in a black hoodie was seen exiting the yard after the shooting, heading towards Princes Street.
Testing conducted by police found a large amount of gunpowder residue on the hands of Prince.
Small, said to be a businessman, had escaped death twice before after he was shot in separate attacks. In September 2009, he was one of five persons who were shot after a football match at the National Gymnasium.
He was also one of three persons who was shot at the National Cultural Centre in 2012, where a football tournament was being played.
