A man and woman have been arrested on charges of having aided the murder of a 19-year-old youth, shot dead by gunmen near Sylvester Road in Mount Lavinia on 05 May.
According to the Police, the Mount Lavinia Division Crimes Investigations Unit arrested a 33-year-old man in Mount Lavinia yesterday, along with 15 grams of ICE narcotics.
Further interrogations of the suspect had led to the arrest of a 28-year-old woman in the Dehiwala area today.
The Police said that 06 suspects, including the gunman, have been arrested so far in connection with the shooting.
On 05 May, a 19-year-old youth, a resident of Auburn Place in Dehiwala, who was employed on a contract basis as a worker in the solid waste department of the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council, was shot dead.
The victim was cleaning the Sylvester Road area in Mount Lavinia when the suspect, on a motorcycle, opened fire from behind and later chased the youth onto the main road and shot him multiple times, before fleeing the area.
Police investigations found that the deceased youth was the son of a female drug trafficker, who is currently in prison, and that the woman’s daughter was also involved in drug peddling. (Newswire)
