Kenrick Cozier, a second suspect in the killing of 10-year-old Anthony Cort during a robbery in Sophia in March, was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.
Cozier, also known as “Bulla Boy,” 29, of Sophia, appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.
It was alleged that on March 11, 2021 at “C” Field, Sophia, George-town, Cozier murdered Anthony Cort in the course or furtherance of an armed robbery.
He was remanded to prison and the matter was postponed until July 9, 2021, for report.
Cort, of Lot 612 Packet Corner, ‘C’ Field, Sophia, was shot and killed on March 11, 2021, after armed bandits invaded his neighbour’s home, where he and his mother were visiting.
The police, in a statement, had said that Cort and his mother, Denise McPherson, were at the Lot 614 Packet Corner home of businesswoman Monette Famey when two men, wearing face masks and armed with handguns, stormed in.
At the time of the invasion, Cort was in the upper flat of the house along with Famey’s son, while Famey herself, her aunt, Ena Skerette, who is a pensioner and McPherson were in the bottom flat.
Days after the shooting, a 16-year-old was charged with the murder and remanded to prison.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that during an interview, Cozier provided investigators with a detailed description of what happened before, during and after the crime.
A police source said that the suspect claimed that the teen accomplice told him that Famey had millions worth in cash and jewellery and they then planned the robbery.
The suspect also said the teen brought three of his friends and allegedly collected a gun from one of them to carry out the robbery.
According to the police source, the suspect stated that on the day in question, the suspect said, he and his accomplice went into the shop and held the three women who were present at gunpoint.
The suspect, who claimed that he was unarmed, also reportedly told the police that he relieved the women of their valuables, which included two gold rings, a silver chain, and $18,000 cash
At that point, he further claimed, his accomplice went into the adjoining house and he subsequently heard a loud explosion, which sounded like a gunshot.
As a result, the suspect said he rushed to the upper flat of the house, where he saw Cort lying on the ground motionless, while his accomplice was standing over the child.
The suspect told investigators that he then ran out of the house, picked up his bicycle, which he hid before the robbery to escape and he went to School Bridge in Sophia, where his accomplice met him. While there, he added, his accomplice admitted to him that he had shot the child.
The suspect noted that he and his accomplice divided the money and jewellery. He said his accomplice told him that he would be returning the gun to the friend he borrowed it from.
After that day, the suspect told that police he never saw his accomplice. He said he then travelled to the West Coast of Demerara, where he “stayed low” until his arrest.
