A 17-year-old ap­peared be­fore the Chil­dren’s Court yes­ter­day (No­vem­ber 17), charged with the mur­der of 36-year-old Jean-Paul Perez, which oc­curred on June 12, 2022.

An of­fi­cial state­ment from the Po­lice Ser­vice says the teenag­er al­so was charged with pos­ses­sion of firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, when he ap­peared in court yes­ter­day.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to next Wednes­day, No­vem­ber 23, 2022.

A con­trac­tor from Ari­ma, Perez (al­so known as ‘Jah Paul’) was at Mal­abar Branch Road, on Sun­day 12 June 2022, when he was shot at and wound­ed by a gun­man. He was tak­en to the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he died.

A male sus­pect was ar­rest­ed short­ly af­ter­wards by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion who re­spond­ed to the re­port.

The teen was charged with the of­fences by WPC Sali­na, al­so of HBI, Re­gion Two, on Thurs­day 17th No­vem­ber 2022, fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Roger Gas­pard SC, on Wednes­day 16 No­vem­ber 2022.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by ASP Dou­glas, In­sp. Ram­jag and W/In­sp. Sylvester, Cpl (Ag.) Gor­don and PC Mc Queen, all of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI) Re­gion Two.