- 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.
Why do we have to be like “stains” wherever we go??? Why can’t we have a viable honest trade as a means of sustenance where we were born??? Why is cocaine the only way we can make ends meet??? With cocaine being the most lucrative way to make ends meet it’s also a very dumb to make us meet our end.
i heard a woman who knows the family mention that this guy was killed by his brother the day he was killed
but the tales she told seemed to incredible to be true. turns out she was more correct than i was willing to give her credit for
Troy James was no choir boy
Well, well, what do we have here. Family claimed the man was a mason but the police seem to differ. I feel sorry for the family, however when your sons and daughters are into “construction” and not only mixing cement, their life span is very short.
Live by the sword and you die by it….
I know this is a bit off topic…. does anyone know of Burnham’s involvement with Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre? I was watching the CNN documentary of this and have tons of questions.
Why don’t you ask CNN?
Jim Jones was CIA all the way. the Americans were glad to get rid of that criminal and planted him in Guyana. He had some nerve to deny water to the GDF troops
Jim Jones was a two bit criminal who was allowed to live in Guyana with his
people’s temple members. In those days, the govt was under economic sanctions because ofcommunist/socialist wet dreams by the europeans and
amurikkkans. Col Joe
Singh raised an alarm on Jones 2 monthsprior to this gross killing when they
refused WATER to GDF troops. I can remember this as it was yesterday because,
my mom remarried that same day and a jeep picked me up for immediate duty.
Jones was CIA to the core, and I personally never saw his body.
As for the involvement of LFSB it was more of a nonchalant one.
Those bodies really swole up and stank to high heaven. I could not sleep for weeks.
“Keep it “LIT”
“Love and “Light”
No one in Guyana saw that DEMON coming with his EVIL PLANS.
hope all young people will see that the street life doescause much.It could be ur freedom or ur life.Please come clean.Loved ones hurt too much.
This is another reason why people in these small countries around Guyana are taking their eyes pass Guyanese. You have these criminals and other law breakers going to these places a conducting illegal activities, and the the people in that country then label all Guyanese as bad. The countries where these criminals commit their crimes don’t need to export them to Guyana. They need put them in jail for the rest of their lives. We are a poor country, we don’t have money to build new jails for these harden criminals.
this is sad cain kill abel now it happen to this fam
sad movies,
Come on guys, the mother MAY HAVE KNOWN or MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN about what her son was doing. I You make your children but you do not make their minds. We do not know if she knew. Have a little charity of thoughts guys.
Wen is Guyanese gona STOP thinking the can make million is that country, wen the dont want to DO THINGS THE RIGHT WAY???????????
His mother knew that he was incarcerated for nine months for selling drugs and now she is pleading ignorance about his activities. She knew what he was up to that’s why she was pleading with him not to go back.