The Director of Public Prosecutions has advised that the police Lance Corporal implicated in the fatal shootingSherwin Smithof drug counselor Ralph Turpin be charged with murder.Lance Corporal Sherwin Smith, who was positively identified as the shooter, is expected to appear in court today. Investigators are sure that they have an airtight case since,Cheap Adidas Shoes Online China, in addition to the positive identification of Smith, they were able to confirm that his weapon was used in the shooting.Police had recovered a few spent shells at the scene and they were able to link it to Smith’s seized 9mm pistol.Eyewitnesses said that Turpin was shot twice in his head by a man whom they identified as the police corporal. At the time of the shooting there was a row between two women, one of whom was connected to the policeman. Smith, who is stationed in the police West Demerara Division, disappeared after the shooting and surfaced 24 hours later,Cheap Air Max 90 Australia, after the police had publicly expressed an interest in him in connection with the incident. The cop proclaimed his innocence and gave a statement that sought to distance himself from the scene of the crime.Investigators are still looking for a woman whom they believe could assist with the investigations.Last Thursday morning, Ralph Turpin who was formerly attached to the Phoenix Drug Recovery Centre at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara,China Jerseys Wholesale, and who ran another half way house on Agriculture Road also in Mon Repos, and a few friends had gone to the Stabroek Market area to buy food after a night out when the incident occurred.One of the eyewitnesses, Lesley Spooner, who was with Turpin and other friends, recounted that she was in the process of purchasing the food from a road side stall, when another woman who was also buying food, started an argument with her.Spooner said that one of her companions urged her not to engage the woman but she persisted. She recalled that the woman who started the argument was brandishing a gun. “I could remember seeing her with a gun. But this other man had a gun too,” Spooner told this newspaper adding that one of her friends,Hydro Flask Water Bottle Sale, Karen Busby, who was Turpin’s female companion,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, was desperately trying to cool things down.Spooner said that both the man and woman were waving guns, saying, “Y’all don’t know who y’all f…ing with.”According to Spooner,Bouteille Hydro Flask, the man with the gun struck her down with his hand and this led to Turpin, who was sitting in the car, intervening. “I just hear Ralph say ‘you don’t have to do that’ and then it was, pow! pow!” Spooner recalled. She said that it was the man who did the shooting but she did not realize that Turpin was the person that was shot.“I thought was Karen (Busby) he shoot because she was still on the ground,” Spooner told this newspaper. Busby had been knocked down prior to the shooting.It was only after she saw Turpin also lying on the ground that she realised what had happened.The visibly terrified woman is thankful that the shooter’s gun malfunctioned or ran out of bullets since he had pointed it to her head too and kept pulling the trigger but it did not go off.Ralph Turpin“I don’t know but when he clicked, it had no more bullets. He would have killed me and he would have killed she (Busby) too,” she said.The woman and the man,Cheap Jerseys Online, who was later identified as Lance Corporal Smith, then jumped into the car and sped away.