A suspect fitting the description of the man who shot and killed Senior Environmental Officer Alicia Foster on Sunday was arrested yesterday morning, Acting Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene disclosed.
Alicia Foster
Greene was responding to questions from the media shortly before the commencement of the Guyana Police Force’s Annual Medal Presentation Ceremony held at the Tactical Services Unit Square, Eve Leary.
While stressing that last Sunday’s execution-style, David Street, Kitty murder is still under investigation, he told the media that “we picked up a suspect this morning. He is being interrogated at this point to see what evidence we may be able to produce from him. I can’t tell you where that is at this point in time but I know somebody fitting the description that was given to us was arrested this morning”.
Meanwhile police have ruled out robbery as the motive behind the fatal shooting of Foster and are following several leads as they struggle to solve the latest in a list of execution-style killings.
The woman’s family, close friends and colleagues continue to wonder what could have sparked the incident which cost the environmentalist her life.
She was shot in the face minutes after she drove up to her David Street, Kitty home after attending a wake with a younger sister. She was waiting on the sister to open the gate so she could drive in when a man went up to her car and demanded that she get out.
It was at this point that she was shot in the face and flung from the vehicle. The gunman then jumped into her car and drove away while his accomplice also fled the scene. A post-mortem examination conducted on Wednesday revealed that she died as a result of a gunshot wound to the head. Foster is to be buried next Tuesday, a close relative told Stabroek News.
Many who knew Foster could only describe the incident as tragic and cold- blooded murder. Some spoke of her as someone who was making a difference in society and had a promising future ahead.
It was a little before 10 pm when James Foster responded to the persistent sounding of the buzzer and looked outside to see Alicia lying on the road. Reports are that the gunman and another man had been laying in wait, watching as Alicia pulled up opposite the home.
The day after the shooting around 9 am, the woman’s car PHH 2236 was found abandoned at Well Road, North Ruimveldt minus the keys.
The woman’s father James Foster had told Stabroek News that his daughter was not the victim of a carjacking or a robbery. He said nothing was taken from her except her life and he believed that something is amiss.
He had no answers at the time but said someday it would come to light. Meanwhile, he was prepared to let the police handle the matter.
Keeping mr Foster my prayers are with they would be caugth
I pray that this young woman’s life does not go in vain.
Interrogate, lie detector, recovered fingerprints from the car, pass the individual through every screening process. Hope the assassin will be caught more sooner than later, and justice be served for the brutal assassination of Srta Alicia.
I’m glad they got some one as a suspect, and i hope it can shed some light on what happened to her.
Its nice to know someone is picked up for interrogation
on this murder…But….Lets wait a bit to see the outcome….Too often now we hear this and that person picked up that turn out to be false hope….This is not an ordinary robbery or carjacking….Someone was hell bent on silencing this kid..Like I said b4…Just justice will be served for this kid…..
Evil eye what kind of Justice are you talking about ?
Justice like what Monica Reece recieved 12 years ago, or justice like what Lloyde Blackmoore recieved after he was shoot by a female , Or justice like what Blackie got when he agreed to surrender and came out with his hands up in the air ,or lets see justice like what the former world History maker Dr. Walter Rodney got back in the 80’s
You check the history of Guyana and see if there was ever a time when the nature of such crimes was ever solved by any one of the Guyana goverements there is never no justice in Guyana for these simlar types of crimes the always go unsloved why ? Because there is always someone trying to solve the crime who is involved in the crime and may be playing a part to cover it up I bet you Evil eye , 99% out of a 100% this one will go down as another unsolved murder sooner or later because some one inside will cover it up until it disappears .
And all the family will recived from the Actors is a promise to serve the crime and that poor family will ended up becoming the victims all over again because a promise is a comfort to a fool when it comes to justice in Guyana .
Injustice will never stop in Guyana as longs as those who are corrupted remain in leadship they will always breed more corruption and injustice .
I second you on this one
my deepest sympathy to the beraeved family, now the younger sister who it is mention was opening the gate for alicia to drive into her residence had a oppertunity to witness and possibly had a quick look at the suspect, might be able to possitivly identify the man held in custody,and let me add that the younger sister should be placed in protective custudy.
Not too fast people. This is only a suspect hope the culprits are caught and dealt with the maximum punishment. Shame on them.
“Not too fast people, this is only a suspect”
Well said, I do agree with you East Bank Gal.
This may “NOT BE DE” man the police have.
I hope the family receives closure, tough I know it’s impossible to fully overcome their loss, and I agree with tiger that the younger sister should be placed in protective custody.
If this suspect turns out to be the killer then I hope the police squeeze him by the testicles until he reveal who paid for this “hit”.
This family needs justice like all the other families who are seeking answers for the death of their love ones. Lets see what this one has to say about Alicia’s death.
my sympaty goes out to the family ,