A woman and two children under the age of ten were killed on Wednesday April 17 in Macouria, north of Cayenne, in Guyana, and the alleged perpetrator was hospitalized, we learned from the prosecution.
“Around 3:00 p.m., Wednesday in Macouria, an individual born in 1997 was identified for having killed a lady and two children under ten years old with a knife
,” Yves Le Clair, public prosecutor of Cayenne, told AFP. .
“The identity of the two children has not yet been determined,”
added the prosecutor who could not certify the relationship with the deceased woman. However, he indicated that
“the alleged perpetrator knew the woman whose identity we have”
.
The events took place in a house in this town of 20,000 inhabitants located around thirty kilometers north of Cayenne. Released from prison last November after incarceration for acts of violence, the alleged perpetrator
"himself alerted the gendarmes"
, the prosecution told AFP. Seriously injured
“in circumstances which remain to be determined”
, he was evacuated to Cayenne hospital in particular to undergo surgery. An investigation into an assassination was opened and entrusted to the research section of the Kourou gendarmerie brigade.