Man, 27, charged with woman’s murder

SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A 27-year-old Arou­ca man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a mag­is­trate af­ter po­lice charged him with the mur­der of Yamerlis Lopez.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed the man on Mon­day and kept him in cus­tody. In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau met with of­fi­cials from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on Thurs­day.

Sources said the DPP gave in­struc­tions to lay the charge.

Yamerlis Lopez was gunned down while sit­ting un­der a shed at Gar­den Road, Windy Hill, Arou­ca, on Jan­u­ary 21.

Ini­tial re­ports in­di­cat­ed that Lopez was preg­nant at the time of the shoot­ing; how­ev­er, sources said post-mortem re­sults re­fut­ed this.

Po­lice sus­pect the killing arose from a dis­pute.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, po­lice ar­rest­ed a 26-year-old San Juan man in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of 42-year-old Ker­wyn Sam­mer­son at Wharf Trace, Mara­cas, St Joseph, on Mon­day.