La Savane:-- Television Talk Show host and camera operator Jean Mark Sharpless (Markavelli) will be transferred to Guadeloupe today(Tuesday) as the investigation into the slaying of Rigobert Bertin- Maurice continues.
Sharpless was arrested early Sunday morning at his Cripple Gate home as a suspect and was placed in garde de vue, since he was involved in an argument and altercation with the victim (Rigobert Bertin Maurice) on Thursday.
According to statements received from Sharpless prior to his arrest the victim had flattened his car tires as he parked in front of the Collectivity. Sharpless said he was called by a territorial police who showed him what the victim was doing. He said he had taken a photograph of the victim as he was damaging his property, that he said caused the argument to become bigger. Sharpless also said he had problems in the past with the now dead man, but those problems he said were resolved. Several persons who overheard the confrontation on Thursday said Sharpless had told Bertin-Maurice that he was going to be a dead man. Because of those statements and the altercation Sharpless is considered to be the prime suspect in the slaying.
Sources close to the investigation has said that at least three persons were involved in the shooting, one of which matches the description of Jean Mark Sharpless. So far Sharpless is held as a suspect to the murder.
This media house also understands that the gendarmes are still looking for the murder weapon.
Several persons in the community has expressed outraged into the senseless killing of Rigobert Bertin Maurice and Jean-Dany Theodore Richardson, both victims were the same age. SMN News received a number of emails expressing doubt that Sharpless cannot be the one who killed Bertin-Maurice. Some of the writers also said that the victim was also involved in a second altercation on the waterfront that same day.
