Teen arrested for murder
(CNS): Police confirmed this morning that a 16-year-old boy has been arrested and is currently detained on suspicion of murder following a police operation in the West Bay area earlier this morning. At About 7:20 am on Thursday 8 April the teenager was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Marcos Mauricio Gauman Duran who was shot and killed in West Bay, on Thursday 11 March, police stated. Duran an Ecuadorian national from George Town was killed as he was visiting an apartment on Maliwinas Way.
He was the third murder victim of 2010 and was killed on the same evening that a teenager was wounded in a shooting in the Birch Tree Hill area. Police have not yet confirmed if this murder was gang related. Police said at the time that Duran cold have been the victim of a robbery gone wrong.
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