- 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.
Bottom line, good riddance to society. It spares the taxpayers the cost of feeding and housing him, not forgetting the harm he did to those “WEAKLINGS” who bought his white powder
Thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best few words so far.
If parents don’t know what their kids are up to, then what kind of parents are they.
When I was growing up the whole neighbourhood knew what each other children was doing.
So sad!!!!!
WombMan wake up and stop shielding your youths in criminality.
He was a good boi crack cocaine dealer.
The government needs to decriminalize marijuana in small amounts for personal use be it medicinal or other.
I feel Cocaine needs to be criminalized to the highest extent of the law but I have
worked with functional crack addicts. One would never know it outside of their homes.
Another life wasted and this time at the hands of his brother who is supposed to protect him.
Again I say we have to put some full sanctions on Columbia if we want this
scourge to end. Did ones see how Prez Evo Morales is exposing the CIA for their
drug dealings in Bolivia and elsewhere on the South American Continent??????
Time for Barak Obama to disband the DEA, FBI and CIA.
“Keep it “LIT”
“Love and “Light”
The good book says…..’ Hide your brother’s faults’…… May his mother find solace at this time of bereavement.
MY INPUT, I WOULD LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE. LET THE PAST REMAIN WHERE IT BELONGS & LOOK AHEAD FOR BEHIND EVERY DARK CLOUD ……. THERE’S A SILVER LINING.
Sometimes you have to look back for encouragement to keep moving forward. Every year those people are remembered by their families. Should they forget what happened too? As I watched the documentary I couldn’t help but to ask that question.
Yuh live by the guns & u shall died by then…hope this is a lesson to others who maybe thinking of follwing in his foot steps & for those who are into drugs it’s time to set things right
Myinput, with all due respect, i did not mean to be disrectful towards the families of the 914 unfortunately souls, nor to you Sir. The Rev. Jim Jones was a fanatic, which we all know & had the blessings of the land at the time. What i was trying to say is that we should not fill our hearts with hatred as life is very precious. I hope , after all these years, the famalies of their dear departed ones have found some sort of comfort, FROM GOD WE CAME, AND TO HIM IS OUR SURE RETURN.
Was he realy his brother’s keeper?
The things that people would do for money,he would be the devil to kill his own brother,but then again that is the life they choose but it is hard to even imagine his brother.
france is the mother country for french guiana,as i said before when ever one want to work there,they have to speak french,and that young man only had spent 2yrs,and i am sure he did not know the french so the only way to survive is to go the wrong way,and that way is,DRUGS ,GUNS =DEATH &ROSES,VERY ,VERY SAD?but that the way it’s is.
These guys are just lazy, they want easy money. I came Canada (QUEBEC) which is french. And I learned to speak french in less than a year, mind you not a 100%. But I did not sell drugs and commit any crimes. I work very hard, for all I have today. So I say this to them EASY MONEY = EASY DEATH.
This is really disgraceful, brother killed his brother over what ? Mum you see where the work that your son was really doing ended up to? I am sorry to say but you wouldn’t be able to leave french guiana with your son body for burial, just bear up