George Kialondo Jr. has been freed on bail bond by his lawyers, headed by Cllr. Swalihou Sesay, after he was forward to the Monrovia City Court before Magistrate Jomah Jallah for shooting Mohammad Kamara in the stomach.
It can be recalled that on October 7, 2022 survivor Mohammad Kamara went with a pistol to the B.& J. Luxury Limited, operated by Bryant Wilson, claiming that the pistol was owned by Khalil Bongary who had sent him for it.
When he arrived with the gun at Bryant’s store, the gun started to slip down in his trousers. Trying to adjust the gun in his trousers by bringing it out, Mitchell Dee, one of Bryant Wilson’s workers, glanced at the gun and said to Mohammad, “You and all carrying fake gun around here?” But Kamara told Michelle Dee that the gun was not a fake one.
Within that time, George Kialondo, Jr., who went at the same business center to purchase a phone from Wilson, told Kamara to give him the gun to see. When Kamara handed the gun over to him, he advanced the gun and one of the bullets dropped from the gun.
Kialondo Jr. picked up the bullet from the floor and started putting it back into the gun, but the owner of the store, Wilson, told him not to put the shot back into the gun.
In that process, Kamara and some of Wilson’s workers, including Abraham Sarnuel and Mitchell Dee, and a technician, Tony Jamal, who installed the CCTV for Wilson in the business center, were standing right in front of Kialondo, at which time the gun suddenly fired.
As soon as the gun fired, everyone in the store ran Helter scatter, but Kamara fell on the floor, beneath the table. Later, it was noticed that he was bleeding. All this time the weapon was still in the possession of George Kialondo, Jr.
Kamara was then placed into a “kekeh” on the instruction of Wilson, and taken to Mawah Clinic, Vai Town, for treatment. Unfortunately, there was no space there at the clinic, and so he was transferred to J.F.K, where he is currently undergoing treatment.
According to investigation conducted by the Liberia National Police, the weapon was removed from the crime scene and handed over to the alleged owner, Khalil Bougary, who thereafter ordered that the crime scene be closed.
A few days after the incident, Bougary decided to avail himself to the investigation. “During the investigation by LNP, if the CCTV was functioning during the period of the incident, as indicated by Jamel, who installed it, it could have supported the investigation, especially on the accusation and counter-accusation made by Bryant Wilson and George Kialondo Jr. over who fired the gun, even though Mohammad M. Karnara, claimed that it was Kialondo who took the gun from him and fired,” the LNP investigation revealed.
Based on the shooting of Mohammad M. Kamara, coupled with his testimony, as well as other witnesses’ testimonies and the evidences adduced, the investigation has resolved to charge defendant George Kialondo Jr. with the crimes of possession and sale of physical objects for lethal use, aggravated assault and recklessness, in violation of Chapter 17.11, Chapter 14 Section 14.20 and Section 14.23 of the Revised Penal Code of the Liberia,
Defendant Khalil Bongary, who is on the run, is also changed in absentia with the crime of possession and sale of physical objects for lethal use, in violation of chapter 17.11 of the Penal Code of Liberia, pending court trial.