A second suspect in the murder of Kitty contractor Peter Gonsalves, was charged with the capital offence yesterday and remanded to prison.
Daniel Parris, of ‘D’ Field, Sophia, appeared in a Georgetown Court where Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan read the charge to him.
The charge states that on December 7, 2020, at Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty, he murdered Gonsalves during the course or furtherance of a robbery. He was not required to plead to the charge and he was remanded until March 1st.
Parris was arrested by police last Wednesday.
Another man, Kacey Heyliger, 28, was previously charged with the murder and remanded to prison in December.
Gonsalves, 60, of Pere Street, Kitty was shot and killed around 9.45pm on December 7th, 2020, when he was attacked by two men on a motorcycle in front of the Red Bar at Garnett Street.
The police had said that Gonsalves was proceeding west along Garnett Street on his motorcycle, a black and white Honda XR motorcycle.
One of the suspects, who was armed with a handgun, reportedly shot Gonsalves several times, causing him to fall to the ground. The bandit escaped on Gonsalves’ motorcycle. While one of Gonsalves’ workers had been his pillion rider at the time of the attack and he escaped unhurt
Gonsalves was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical technicians.
