Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying and locating a woman who was in the company of Glenville Harry in the hours before he was shot and killed at his home in Vermont Thursday night.
Villagers who had heard gunshots overnight went to Harry’s house around 7:30 a.m. Friday and found him dead.
On Monday, acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Trevor “Buju” Bailey told a press conference that a woman whose identity is not known to the police has emerged as a person of interest in the investigation.
“We’re seeking your assistance in identifying this female. She’s not known to us, but she’s a person of interest,” said Bailey, who has overall responsibility for crime-fighting.
He urged anyone who had seen Harry in the company of a female that day to talk to the police.
“If you can contact us and have a conversation, we’ll be grateful,” Bailey said, adding that the woman is “of tremendous importance to us in this investigation”.
Bailey said the investigation revealed that Harry was in the company of the woman before he was last seen alive.
“… and they were moving around in a particular vehicle. Sometime after the gunshot ran out, there was some interaction with a female and someone on the road, and that was the last time that that female was seen,” he said.
“Now, we have every reason to believe that she’s still very much alive and that she is of critical importance to us in this investigation.”
He said people might not necessarily have seen Harry and the woman together in Vermont, “because they were moving around.
“So, it might have been 12 o’clock in the day; It might have been four o’clock in the afternoon. They were somewhere else; someone might have seen them together somewhere, not necessarily in Vermont.
“But if that happened, and any member of the public has that information, we’ll be grateful if you can reach out and cooperate with the police so that we can find this lady, who is critical to our investigation.”
Bailey also urged the woman to reach out to police.
“We’d will love for her to come at Central Station. Even now, I will leave the press conference and go downstairs and gladly welcome her to Central Station,” he said.
“So, if she’s hearing this press conference, please come forward. Let’s have a conversation. We’d like to know your side of the story. What transpired that night. We were not there,” he said at the press briefing, which was broadcast live on social media.