One of the two suspects in the murder of taxi driver, Kelvin Walters, is being questioned by the police, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves on Wednesday told Stabroek News.
In a telephone interview, he told Stabroek News that investigators were awaiting approval from the other suspect’s doctor before questioning him in relation to the crime. He was released from the hospital earlier this week.
Walters was fatally shot on the Eccles, East Bank Demerara public road on the night of January 29, while he was on his way home.
The suspects have been hospitalised since the night of the shooting. Walters crashed his car into the attackers, who were traveling on a motorcycle. Police, on January 30, said that the men were arrested and placed into custody under guard. The men were found with “injuries consistent with that of a motor vehicle accident.”
Police had earlier said that Walters, who was proceeding south along the eastern carriageway of the road in his car, PXX 1509, with his wife and child at around 7:20 pm, was shot by a man on a motorcycle.
He was heading to his residence at La Parfait Harmonie on the West Bank of Demerara at the time.
Whilst in the vicinity of the Two Brothers Service Station, the police said, two males on a motorcycle approached and turned in front of his vehicle and the pillion rider whipped out a handgun and shot Walters in the face.
Walters, nonetheless, managed to hit the suspects using his car. The duo fled on foot. Their motorcycle and a firearm with 14 live rounds were left behind at the crime scene and later recovered by the police.
The motive for the shooting remains unknown.
Walters was a witness in the case of a grenade being found outside the offices of the Kaieteur News at Saffon Street, Charlestown, on June 4, 2016. Walters had testified in the preliminary inquiry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The matter is set to come up in the High Court later this year.
Alves had, however, noted that no connection has been made between Walters’ death and him being a witness in the case.
