The suspect in the fatal shooting of Manu Durant is still at large, Crime Chief Leslie James said yesterday.
Durant was rushed from the Baroombar strip club at North Road to a private city hospital with two gunshot wounds to his chest last Thursday around 4:30am. Durant, a resident of Atlantic Ville, East Coast Demerara, died some time later.
According to a witness, Durant, who was drunk, got irate when the DJ at the club turned off the music while the strippers were dancing for him.
An official of the club explained to Durant that the club was closed. “Like he get vex and pull out he gun and point it to the DJ head and say ‘turn on de (expletive) music, I wan’ hear two mo song,’” the witness had explained to this newspaper.
The witness added that the DJ turned back on the music but stopped it before that song was completed.
After the music was turned off once more, Durant reportedly got angry and threatened to kill the DJ, the witness said. Three gunshots were fired and the source said he thought it was Durant that fired the shots but it was the security guard.
Durant is no stranger to the police. Back in 2008, he was identified as a suspect in the disappearance of Buxton teen Tenisha Morgan. Morgan was said to be carrying the child of notorious criminal Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins at the time. Durant was also shot and injured in 2009 outside a bar in Kitty.
