Police are making major progress in the fatal Ladyville shootout investigation. As we told you, both 19 year old Darwin Estuardo Prado and 28 year old Egbert Baldwin were charged with a number of offenses. Those include 3 counts of attempted murder, 3 counts of use of deadly means of harm, 1 count of wounding, 1 count of grievous harm and 1 count of dangerous harm. These charges were brought against Prado and Baldwin for shooting at Lozano's crew outside their Marage road house. But another ominous element has been introduced, in the form…of the infamous Alrick Smith. Yes...he is in the news AGAIN! for the second night in a row but tonight he is the one charged for abetment to commit murder. Now police had told us that they are examining the familial link between Smith and the deceased gunman Lionel Rhamdas - they are in-laws, and police said they had to be prepared for any retaliatory acts from Smith and his crew. Well so said, so done - after the death of his brother in law Rhamdas, Smith allegedly threatened the life of 11 members of the Lozano family including the mother Cynthia Lozano and her sons. Apart from Smith's charge, police also found a weapon that is believed to have been used to kill Rhamdas. Today at a press briefing Assistant Commissioner of Police Edward Broaster gave us more details.
ACP. Edward Broaster - OC. Easter Division Rural
"Our investigation continued and Mr. Alrick Smith has been also charged for abetting the commission of murder upon Miss Cynthia Lozano, Jerome Lozano, Casey Lozano, Atley Lozano and 8 others who we will not name at this time. This stem out of an incident that occurred the wee hours of 
Saturday morning where Mr. Alrick Smith made specific threats to the Lozano Family. As a result of our continuing investigation we also recovered a 9 millimeter pistol along with 11 rounds of ammunition which we believed was used in the shooting that night. It is being processed to determine whether or not that gun was used to fire fatal shot that took the life of Mr. Lionel Rhamdas."
Police told us they have to confirm if that gun was the one used in the fatal shooting. We will keep following this volatile case.
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