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-suspect had fled murder scene in stolen boatResidents of an Amerindian community have captured the 15-year-old boy suspected on brutally killing his uncle at Kariabo Backdam, North West District last Friday.Kaieteur News understands that the teen was nabbed on Sunday at Kokerite Mission, a community some 40 miles for the area where the murder occurred.According to reports,Melvin Gordon Wisconsin Jersey, the lad was trying to persuade a suspicious villager to take him by speedboat to Mainstay,C.J. Fair Syracuse Jersey, when the residents took him into custody.He was reportedly armed with a cutlass and with bow and arrows. A source said he also had a leg of smoked wild meat, which he had also stolen.The boy has been on the run since Friday, when he allegedly killed his 50-year-old uncle,Cheap West Virginia Mountaineers Jerseys, Michael Williams, during an argument over raw gold.He reportedly fled the area in a stolen canoe and paddled to Kokerite, another community several miles away. There,Klay Thompson Washington State Jersey, he encountered a villager who owns a speedboat.According to a source, the lad told the man that he lived at Mainstay, and persuaded the villager to take him there. But during the journey, the villager became suspicious after the teen repeatedly kept hiding near the bow.At one point during the journey,Montee Ball Wisconsin Jersey, the boat became stuck on a sandbank,West Virginia Mountaineers Jerseys, but the lad refused to leave the vessel to assist the villager.This further aroused the man’s suspicions and he eventually stopped at Kokerite Mission and alerted other villagers who then tied up the youth and alerted the police.Kaieteur News understands that the captured youth has denied killing his uncle.According to reports,Syracuse Orange Jerseys, the victim, Michael Williams, and a friend were walking in Kariabo Backdam last Friday when Williams stopped to rest while his friend continued walking.Sources say that the man’s nephew was seen walking on the trail with a cutlass over his shoulder. According to persons from the area Williams and his nephew were seen arguing before the teen chopped his uncle,Oliver Luck West Virginia Jersey, almost beheading him.It is alleged that the teen calmly wiped off his blood stained cutlass in the mud before walking away. Some of Williams’ friends placed him on a makeshift stretcher and tried to take him to the Mission. However Williams died on the way.This publication was told that Williams was immediately buried,Rod Wilks Tennessee Jersey, but the remains will be exhumed to facilitate a post mortem examination. |
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