A soldier was arrested on Monday evening in connection with the murder of Sophia bread vendor Andre Alexander and the police are currently pursuing a second suspect, who is said to be the triggerman.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that acting on information received, the police on Monday arrested the solider at a location in Georgetown. He remained in custody up to yesterday afternoon, up to which time efforts were still being made to locate the second suspect.
Alexander, known as ‘Alex’ and ‘Bread Man,’ 42, a father of two of Lot 394 Section C, Sophia, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Friday evening, hours after he was shot once to his stomach by one of two bandits, who posed as customers and held him at gunpoint.
Two men on a motorcycle pulled up in front of Alexander’s stall in Sophia and requested three loaves of bread.
As he was making change for the $5,000 bill the men used to pay him, they held him at gunpoint and demanded he hand over his cash.
The police, in a press release, had said that Alexander refused and was shot. The suspects then relieved him of his cash and they escaped on the motorcycle, discharging several rounds in the process. The man being sought by police is suspected to have been the pillion rider at the time of the attack.
Beverly Best-Alexander, the victim’s wife, was assisting him in the shop when the attack occurred but she managed to escape.
