After months of intense investigations, police have arrested a suspect in the June 30 killing of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News yesterday that the breakthrough came last Saturday. He said investigators have been working on the case all along and “there were developments.”
Around 7.45 pm, two men went to the woman’s Robb Street home asking for ‘Auntie’. They were directed up a side step and as she emerged from her bedroom, which is opposite the front door, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot her several times to the upper part of her body.
The men then jumped into a waiting car while the injured woman was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly after. The men did not make any attempts to harm her brother, Fitzroy Fiedtkou, who was sitting on the stairs when they arrived. They also did not demand that he hand over any valuables.
Residents had said that two strange young men were seen driving around the area in a grey car. At one time, a resident said, they parked near the woman’s house. From all appearances the men were investigating the easiest entry and exit points.
Following the murder, police received information that an employee of a city business had gone to the woman’s home and ordered that she remove from the property since it belonged to the business. He had even offered to pay her rent but Fiedtkou-Parris refused to remove.
This conversation reportedly occurred a few days before the murder. The employee was arrested but spent less than a day in police custody after repeatedly denying that he had such a conversation with the woman.
Investigators have ruled out robbery as the motive and are pursuing the idea that she was killed over a property dispute.
