The police are yet to obtain legal advice on their investigations in the murders of Better Hope moneychanger Aaron Latchman and his daughter, Arian, police commissioner Leslie James said last night.
James told Stabroek News that investigators are following the procedures and have to wait on legal advice.
He said that the force will update the media on whether charges will be instituted against the detained persons.
Last week the police said that they were making “good progress” on the case.
The police had initially arrested four persons earlier in the week who were interrogated by investigators from the Major Crimes Unit at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
In relation to those four, acting Crime Chief Michael Kingston said that they have applied to the High Court to keep them in custody as the investigation continues.
Stabroek News understands that a fifth person was arrested on Thursday, and he has since been cooperating with the police.
The fatal shooting of the father and daughter occurred at their 58 Robert Street, Better Hope North, East Coast home around 3.30 pm last Thursday.
The Guyana Police Force had said that from preliminary investigations, the bandits confronted the elder Latchman as he exited his car. He had returned home just moments earlier.
It was revealed that he put up a fight and was shot during the struggle. The bandits reportedly took a bag containing money and escaped in a waiting car. Arian, neighbours said, was shot and killed in the upper flat of the home. It was her screams that alerted neighbours to the attack.
Autopsies later revealed that Aaron died as a result of multiple gunshot injuries while Arian died from a single gunshot injury.
