The police are currently pursuing two suspects in connection with the murder of Cuban butcher Ofredis Duarte Campos, who was fatally shot during an attempted robbery on Thursday morning.
Contacted for an update last evening, Commander of Region 4(A) Edgar Thomas told Stabroek News that up to last evening, the suspects were not located.
“The investigation into that matter is still ongoing. We are still to make an arrest,” Thomas said.
He explained that investigators were reviewing CCTV footage.
Campos, of 321 East Street, Georgetown was on his way to work at the Rossignol Butchery around 6.44am when he was shot thrice about his body. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
The police had said that Campos was confronted by two men after he left his home around 6.30 am.
“…Whilst on the western parapet proceeding south on Cummings Street between Middle and Quamina Streets, he was confronted by [two] suspects on a red and white XR motorcycle which came from the opposite direction. During the confrontation the pillion rider discharged three rounds…. after which they fled the scene,” a police release stated.
Anisley Diaz Hernandez, the dead man’s wife, had told Stabroek News that he worked at the Rossignol Butchery in Suriname for four years before they moved here two years ago and he began working at the company’s branch on Church Street.
His uncle had said that at the time of his death Campos was carrying a haversack in which he had a work t-shirt and a support belt he wore at work to prevent back injuries. He also had his phone in his pocket. Nothing was stolen from him.
Meanwhile, residents had told Stabroek News that they believed the men who killed Campos intended to rob him. They had said that that when confronted by the men, Campos refused to give up his bag which led to him being shot.
One resident had claimed that after Campos was shot, then the men realised that he had nothing valuable in the bag.
