As police continue their probe into the one-week old murder of Sophia bread vendor Andre Alexander, the High Court yesterday granted them more time to question the two suspects who were arrested.
Commander of ‘C’ Division Kevin Adonis told Stabroek News yesterday that the police were granted a 72-hour extension after making an application to the High Court.
The two suspects, a soldier and a man who was allegedly seen in his company before the crime was committed, were arrested earlier this week. A hunt is continuing for the alleged triggerman.
Alexander, known as ‘Alex’ and ‘Bread Man,’ 42, a father of two of Lot 394 Section C, Sophia, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital last Friday night, 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 note 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.
