A dirty affair, the details of which are not yet known. According to a police source, the manager of a grocery store and two women from his family were found dead with their throats slit in a shelter next to the small shop in the city center in Cayenne, Guyana, on Friday night.
The victims are a man born in 1961, the company's managing director, his sister born in 1966 and a young woman from their family born in 2004, said Commissioner Romy Laguens of the Cayenne criminal police on Saturday, specifying that the three people were their victims had their throats slit. According to the fire department, these are traders of “Asian origin”.
“At around 3.30 a.m. calls were received by the emergency services, but it cannot currently be clarified whether these calls came from the victims or other people, said the commissioner. Even at the beginning of the investigation, it is not possible to clarify the motive for this triple murder or to clarify whether it was committed by one person or by several perpetrators.
Frequent violence
The investigation has been entrusted to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Cayenne Criminal Investigation Department. The President of the Territorial Collective of Guyana, Gabriel Serville, reacted to the tragedy in a press release with the hope that the perpetrator(s) will be “quickly caught.”
In Guyana, many neighborhood grocery stores are run by vendors of Asian descent and are often targets of violence. In August 2022, one of them was killed in a shootout following a robbery at his store. In August 2023, a wave of robberies hit traders in Saint-Laurent, Guyana's second largest municipality after Cayenne.