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Terry Kissoon has been sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of Troy Smith.The ruling was handed down by Justice Dianne Insanally, at the Georgetown Supreme Court yesterday. Kissoon, 39, of Lot 126 Thomas Street, shot and killed Smith over an alleged stolen motorbike on July 30, 2010.According to police reports, Kissoon reportedly accused Smith of stealing his motorcycle. The two ended up in a heated argument before Kissoon took out a handgun and shot Smith in the abdomen before fleeing the scene.Kissoon reportedly went to Smith’s Lot 108 Thomas Street,Wholesale Authentic China Jerseys, Kitty residence where the incident took place around 07:00 hours. He had given Smith a 24-hour ultimatum to find the motorcycle.Smith, 34, was reportedly shot at close range, in the passageway leading to his yard. The suspect is said to have chased Smith out of the yard with a piece of wood before shooting him in the passageway leading to the house. Smith made it to the stairway of his house before he collapsed.Several persons, including the brother of the deceased, who was the prosecution’s main witness in the trial, observed the actual shooting.Smith was being taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital but died as a result of the single gunshot wound he sustained to his left side abdomen before he could have reached the health facility.Earlier in the trial, Kissoon told the jury that he was 300 miles away from the scene of the crime.As an alibi, the accused had told the court that he was on his way to Lethem about 300 miles from Georgetown. When police questioned him about the Georgetown murder he said that he had no knowledge.Kissoon denied a prosecution’s allegation that the murder stemmed from the motor cycle incident.He also claimed that the brother of the deceased, Shawn Smith, had wrongfully identified him as the killer. Kissoon claimed that the poor identification was result of inadequate description.He said that he was not identified by his missing little finger on the right hand and the several tattoos he has about his arms and body.According to him no description was given upon which he could be identified.Attorney-at-law, George Thomas, provided legal representation to the accused, while Prosecutor Dhanika Singh appeared on behalf of the State. |
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