The police have identified a suspect in the case of the triple murder that occurred during the night from Friday to Saturday in Guyana, the Cayenne public prosecutor told AFP on Monday, January 22 evening.
The manager of a grocery store and two women from his family were discovered dead, with their throats cut, during the night from Friday to Saturday in Cayenne, in a home adjoining the small business in the city center.
Surveillance cameras from the business adjoining the apartment where the murders were committed made it possible to trace the suspect, said prosecutor Yves Le Clair.
Based on the medical examiner's examination, he specified that the individual
“would have acted alone”
and that the three victims were killed with the same bladed weapon.
On the run to China
The author fled to neighboring Suriname, whose border is approximately 250 kilometers from Cayenne, according to Yves Le Clair.
He then took a flight to the Netherlands on Sunday and then a plane to China, where he is believed to be at present.
A judicial investigation for assassination was opened and a European arrest warrant was issued, in order to arrest the suspect in the country of arrival.
On Sunday, the Cayenne judicial police told AFP that the victims were a man born in 1961, manager of the business, his sister born in 1966, and a young woman from their family born in 2004. According to the firefighters, he These were traders
of “Asian origin”
.
In Guyana, many neighborhood grocery stores are run by traders of Asian origin, and are frequently the target of violence.
In August 2022, one of them was killed in his business during a shooting following a robbery.