Geisha Kow­lessar

The clue to solv­ing the four mur­ders of a Gon­za­les fam­i­ly lies in sci­en­tif­ic ev­i­dence gath­ered at the crime scene.

Ac­cord­ing to Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gilbert Reyes yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors were await­ing the re­sults af­ter cer­tain sam­ples of blood and oth­er flu­ids that were gath­ered by of­fi­cers of the Crime Scene Unit (CSU) short­ly af­ter the killings. Dur­ing an at­tack at their fam­i­ly home on Feb­ru­ary 22, Car­men McHutchin­son, 68, and her step-grand­chil­dren, Asha, 24, LL,13, and Javon Roberts, 18, were shot dead. Two of the sur­vivors – four-year-old Zara Sylvester and her aunt, 23-year-old Je­hial Roberts – were list­ed as sta­ble at hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day.

Reyes said the sam­ples, which have been sent abroad to be analysed, nor­mal­ly took one week to be com­plet­ed. He said be­cause of a "set­back" lo­cal po­lice were yet to re­ceive the re­sults. He added: "Af­ter the re­sults are com­plet­ed then we can move in a dif­fer­ent di­rec­tion. "But right now we are await­ing the re­sults of the sci­en­tif­ic ev­i­dence and once we get that we will know how to pro­ceed," Reyes said.

Giv­ing the as­sur­ance the per­pe­tra­tors would be brought to jus­tice, the se­nior cop said the po­lice al­so were work­ing on new leads. He said: "We have every rea­son to be­lieve this case would be solved. "The po­lice are do­ing all they can to bring this to a close and it's on­ly a mat­ter of time," Reyes said.