Imran Khan, also known as ‘Drums’, 22, was on Thursday charged and remanded to prison over the murder of Alex Williams, who was fatally chopped during the wee hours of Sunday morning along the Number Two Village, East Canje Berbice Public Road.
Khan, of Fort Ordnance, East Canje Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court, where he was read the charge that on March 13, he murdered Williams, 24, at Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice.
Khan was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge and was remanded to prison. He will return to court on April 5 for report.
In addition to charging Khan, a police source said investigators were able to arrest the person who dealt Williams the fatal chop injuries at Number 65 Village, Corentyne.
Up to yesterday afternoon, the main suspect, 24, from New Amsterdam, was being held in custody at the Number 51 Police Station.
Williams’s father, Mohamed Ishmael, 42, had told this publication that his son left home on Saturday evening to purchase beers and cigarettes from a nearby bar. He said that he was sleeping when his son rushed home sometime before 1 am and informed him that he was “violated on the road” and that he was going back to confront those responsible.
The father then accompanied his son to the bar and spotted one of the suspects exiting with two bottles and moving towards his son. He said he tried to defuse the situation while another man was attempting to stop the fight and told his son to go home. However, it was then that the other suspect, identified as Khan, allegedly came out with two sealed beer bottles, which he used to pelt Williams in his face “and when the bottle knock him in he head, a hear the explosion and Alex drop on the ground on his knee and then (another suspect) run out from the shop with a cutlass and dealt Alex several chops and Alex get up to run them and I see the chop on he neck and he skin and I tell he Alex you wounded bad boy let me take you to the hospital, don’t worry about them man this here.”
According to the father, he then took his shirt and wrapped it around his son’s wound and they made their way to the hospital.
The father noted that five minutes after they arrived at the New Amsterdam Hospital’s Emergency Unit he was informed that his son had succumbed.
