Crime Chief Lyndon Alves yesterday told Stabroek News that investigators are on the hunt for the suspect involved in the fatal shooting of Collis Collison.
Alves, in a telephone interview, told this newspaper that the investigation remains active and investigators were able to identify the suspect. He pointed out that every effort is being made to apprehend the suspect.
Collison, 26, of Better Hope, East Coast Demerara and of 68 William Street, Kitty, was fatally shot at around 2.45 pm at Barr Street, Albouystown. The motive for the shooting remains sketchy, police said.
Collison was standing on Barr Street, Albouystown, when the suspect approached with a firearm brandished, shot him and fled the scene.
Collison was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital by a public-spirited citizen but was pronounced dead at 3.26 pm.
The 26-year-old was well-known to law enforcement, having been charged on several occasions between 2011 and 2016.
In 2011, Collison was remanded to prison for the murder of Linden businessman Albert Joseph, called ‘Bolo’. He was also arraigned on two armed robbery charges. He was freed of that murder charge in November, 2014.
One year later, in 2015, he was charged with discharging a loaded firearm at an off-duty rank, Prem Narine, and with having in his possession a .38 revolver and three live rounds of matching ammunition without being the holder of a valid firearm licence.
He was also charged in 2016 with discharging a loaded firearm at off-duty rank Richard Ramoutar, with the intent to maim, disfigure or cause him actual bodily harm.
It was also alleged that Collison was part of a gang which trailed persons from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri before robbing them.
He was, however, freed of all these charges in 2016, due to insufficient evidence.
Collison was also one of the inmates of the Camp Street prison, who offered testimony during the Commission of Inquiry into the deadly prison fire and unrest.
