The police say that Shaquawn Alleyne known as ‘Iswe’, on Friday confessed to investigators at the Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters that he did shoot his girlfriend, Shonette Dover back in 2021but it was not intentional.
This is according to Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum who said that Alleyne has been placed into custody as the investigation continues in the matter. When contacted for an update, Blanhum told Stabroek News yesterday that the case file is being completed by the investigators and at the earliest opportunity, it will be submitted to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.
The incident occurred between April 3 and 29, 2021 at Canvas City, Wismar, Linden. During the interrogation at CID headquarters, the police reported Alleyne as saying, “Yes, I wish to state what happened, to say it wasn’t an intentional act, it wasn’t premeditated. Shonette made breakfast. I know it was in April but I can’t remember the date that morning and we were in the living room. I sent her sister for the gun, a .38 Special, because I wanted to clean it because I took Shonette the day before to practice to shoot at the back of Wisroc because some bad boys in Linden wanted to rob me. While cleaning the gun I pulled back the hammer and I did spraying [the gun with] WD 40. Shonette was sitting in a chair and I was in front of her on another chair handle when I pointed the gun and waved it. Shonette told me to stop playing and my finger touches the trigger and the gun went off and I see smoke in the living room and Shonette lying motionless with a wound in her forehead and blood coming out. Me and Colletta [Shonette’s sister] didn’t want the family to feel that pain knowing Shonette was dead [so] me and she came up with a plan not to let anyone know what happened. We then dug a hole and bury Shonette in the backyard and said we would tell everyone she leave for work and hasn’t come home back. I later sold the gun to a man in Linden and I beat out to Suriname, after I heard Shonette’s sister was arrested and charged.”
Alleyne, who was wanted for the murder of Dover in April 2021 at Wismar, Linden, was arrested in Suriname on Thursday. He arrived in Guyana on Friday morning from Suriname to face charges for the 2021 murder of his girlfriend and was handed over to the Guyana Police Force.
