The incident now below investigation occurred on Monday, October 29, 2018. Sergeant Leozandre De Leon left his household at house for the Felony Investigation Division in Castries. He’s the division’s administration officer. He arrived at CID shortly earlier than 8 pm to seek out only one officer on the station. It turned out to be a quiet evening, so he determined to kill a while on the cinema, the place he joined two buddies, additionally cops. Collectively they watched an motion film. That they had some KFC afterward, then De Leon returned to CID round 11.30. The obligation officer nonetheless was on his personal, taking down an announcement from three people—two girls and a person—regarding what appeared like a case of piracy on the excessive seas.
The division telephone rang whereas the officer was nonetheless engaged with the trio. De Leon answered it. An unidentified particular person reported having heard gunshots coming from Beverly Hills, in Bocage; a number of pictures. De Leon requested the obligation officer about his different males and was instructed they have been out on a report. De Leon referred to as one in all them and knowledgeable him in regards to the reported capturing. The officer instructed De Leon he and his group have been at Chef Harry Drive, on the Morne. He mentioned they’d heard gunshots however couldn’t set up the place they got here from. De Leon instructed them to go to Beverly Hills and examine. Then, it abruptly hit De Leon: his own residence is on Chef Harry Drive. He referred to as his spouse; a number of occasions. There was no response. Ultimately he drove to his home. On arrival he questioned why sure people recognized to him have been in his driveway.
I cannot go additional into who did what, or when, at this level. Suffice it to say that De Leon slept the remainder of the evening at CID. The following day, he made an official assertion and on the suggestion of a fellow officer and pal he voluntarily handed over his gun, for which he has a license. It’s his personal firearm.
He left CID round 4 pm. Sergeant Leon was by no means instructed he was an individual of particular curiosity or a suspect; he was by no means arrested or accused of any crime; by no means requested handy over journey paperwork. Evidently the police noticed no trigger to detain him.
From what I’ve been in a position additional to ascertain, De Leon has by no means been disciplined, or taken to the orderly room. Nobody has ever accused him of dangerous conduct, and most positively not his spouse. Opposite to repeated information broadcasts, there isn’t any proof that she ever complained to the police that her husband abused her in any means.
The surprising statements by deputy police commissioner Dorian O’Brian at an early morning press convention on the day of the incident have been made, I’m reliably assured, with out first checking with the crime division. A lot of what he instructed reporters appears to have been gleaned from the primary Romeo & Juliet radio report of the murder early Monday morning.
Opposite to extensively disseminated reviews, De Leon was by no means “despatched house on depart.” A letter signed by the deputy police commissioner O’Brian, states that final Wednesday De Leon utilized for 90 days’ trip depart. His request was granted by way of correspondence dated 6 November 2018, and bearing O’Brian’s signature. Till her dying on Monday 29 October, Kimberly William-De Leon and Sergeant Leozandrae De Leon have been husband and spouse, the dad and mom of two youngsters age 9 and 4.
Within the meantime, De Leon resides on the house he as soon as shared together with his spouse, now against the law scene. His youngsters have been controversially taken away from him, a scenario he and his attorneys intend quickly to appropriate.
Editor’s Be aware:
The preceeding was initially printed on November 10, 2018. Thus far there was no arrest within the matter of Kimberly De Leon’s dying. Not too long ago, present Police Commissioner Verne Guard introduced that key proof associated to the murder, which was in police custody, has disappeared with out hint. In the meantime the commissioner is on trip!
