Twenty-four-year-old Shaquawn Alleyne also known as `Iswe’ of Lot 500 Block 55 Wismar, Linden, appeared virtually at the Linden Magistrate’s court yesterday before Magistrate Wanda Fortune charged with murder.
It is alleged that between April 3 and April 30 2021 at Canvas City, Upper Linden, he murdered twenty-year-old Shonette Dover.
He was not required to plead to the charge.
The prosecution stated that the police are currently pursuing an active investigation since the accused agreed to a video interview where he confessed to having sold the firearm used in act.
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 last 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.
