- cops seeking older brother
French police say they are “almost certain” that Troy James, the Guyanese deportee who was gunned down in French Guiana on Monday, was killed by an older brother. James had been convicted on crack cocaine charges and spent ten months in jail before being sent back to Guyana, the police said.
Troy James
So far the suspect has not been apprehended and sources have told Stabroek News that he returned to Guyana through Suriname and was spotted as recently as Wednesday. The circumstances of the shooting are unclear but this newspaper has been told that the two brothers had a falling out that sparked the fatal shooting. Both brothers were residing in French Guiana illegally.
A Stabroek News source in French Guiana made contact with press officer Lieutenant-Colonel Laperle from the Central Gendarmerie and was informed that James was killed on Monday around 7 pm (6 pm local time) in Remire-Montjiloy, a town in the suburb of Cayenne. ”We think he has been shot by his brother and we are looking for him actually,” the officer was quoted by the source as saying.
James sustained three bullets wounds to the thorax (chest) at close range. Four bullet shells were found close to the body. The officer added that the killing took place less than ten metres from a soccer field, where young players of a local team–USL Montjiloy–were training. The coach, former international French goalkeeper Bernard Lama, was leading the training sessions and he was the one who contacted the police. According to the officer, most of the players did not hear the gunshots.
The policeman further said that James had been arrested for crack dealing in 2005 and later convicted in court. He spent ten months in jail in French Guiana after which he was given a paper in 2006 ordering that he leave the country immediately. He left the country but returned in April this year, the officer added.
The source later told this newspaper that the local daily paper, France-Guyane had reported that the two brothers were living together in a small house.
Meanwhile the local police said that no word has come from their French counterparts in relation to the investigation and while they know that James was shot and killed, they are not yet involved in the matter.
James’ mother, Rose Ann Garraway, called `Rosie’, told reporters that she received a telephone call from one of her son’s female friends around 7 pm on Monday informing her that he had just been shot and killed. The man’s relatives later received confirmation of his death from the French Consulate in Guyana.
Stabroek News was told that James had been working in French Guiana for the past few years and would return home periodically. His mother said she had warned him repeatedly about going to that country. “I told him that I don’t like there for him,” she said. She added whenever he was returning to the country, he would slip out when she was asleep so that she could not see him leaving.
Garraway said the last time she saw her son alive was when he returned home about two months ago. The man’s relatives had said that they were clueless as to what might have sparked the tragedy.
They had said that they would travel to French Guiana to retrieve the body for burial here.
I doubt that they would be able to carry him to Guyana for burial,this mother must be shattered,my sympathies are extended to this woman who’s life will never be the same,judgement is in the hands of the almighty, it is not for me to judge,another unfortunate family ruined by drugs!!!!
it was their choice not the drugs
LOW AND BEHOLD, I SAID THE SAME DAM THING YESTERDAY………….COCAINE!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh yea , if you want to mess with it, then eventually you pay with your life. Live and learn people , life is not that bad, get a job and live honestly, you do not have to be rich to survive.
Yes you did, I’ve read your comment pertaining to this matter and found that you were on point with the suggested info at that time that now turned out to be facts.
Slowly everything would be known, deportee/crackcocaine/killed by brother, the woman that called 7pm Monday supposed to have told the mother, who’s the killer..
THEIR MOTHER SAID THEY ARE VERY QUIET AND GOOD KIDS, SO SORRY FOR HER AGONY.
WHEN SOMEONE GET SHOT BECAUSE OF DRUGS OR THE WERE RAPIST OR MURDERS THE FIRST THING THE FAMILY SAY ‘ OH HE WAS A GOOD CHILD NEVER GIVE TROUBLE OR HURT ANYONE’ WELL THE TRUTH ALWAYS COME TO LIGHT HE IS ANOTHER COCAINE CRACK HEAD OFF THE STREET I HOPE THE FIND HIS KILLER AND THE MOTHER MUST HAVE KNOW WHO SHOT HIM AS SHE SAY THAT SHE ALWAYS WARNING HIM NOT TO GO TO FRENCH GUYANA SHE MUST HAVE KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE .
he is a criminal, a deportee, drug seller,yet he is a good, church going kid. it boggles
the mind. however in the eyes of the mother’s no kid is bad.
Freespeech her sons have tonns of cases before the courts in Guyana.
Fisherman NEVER say his fish stink,,,,Remember that. You NEVER hear a mother say her children are not perfect, they are always the best kids in the world until something like this happens, and the truth comes out.
YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD YOU DIE BY THE SWORD
Very Quiet and Good Kids?????????????????????????????????Mmmmmmmm
A mother’s nightmare, she brought them into this world,
YES SHE ‘S GOT TO FEEL SOMETHING,
God will give her the strength to go on.
She did’nt tell them to deal in drugs,
Now she will loose two sons,
Dont be hard on her. afterall she is a mother
A dont hear anything about father, Shame on you all fathers who are not in touch.
As the saying goes, what takes a woman nine months to bear, the pain and suffering, and to feed and clothes for 18 years TAKES A MAN TWO MINUTES OF PLEASURE< AND THAT’s it……………………………………………………………………………….
But I guess some men think like the calypso,I ain’t paying, I ain’t paying , put me in jail du wa you like I ain’t paying “Fu de cow, mine de calf, and de goat mine de kiddie, and every woman have a right to mine she baby.”
God bless all mothers, especially fatherless.
Or did I miss that a father exits??? If so please excuse me.
that:s the only WAY many fathers KNOW ” THE EXIT”
Well this is just another statistic from the drug game, and his brother is the alleged killer how sad.
BE YOUR BROTHERS’ KEEPERS.
there are unseen things that our children are doing unknown to our parents & when tragedy struck, even the parents are is disbelief. So is this case. May god give the mother strength to cope with both of her kids.. 1 dead & possible one will be arrested & convicted of murder.
PRAY mom!
U PLAY WID FIRE U WILL GET BURN!!!!!
U HAVE NO CONTROL WHEN U R IN THE FAT LANE…
My condolonces to the family .When family hurt another, all get hurt.What a shame ! For a few pieces of silver,this should never be! Lets hope others can learn a lesson from this sorry event and not repeat it.