Shkodra’s police have focused their investigations on the murder of father and son in Dukagjin, in a conflict that Gjoke Gurra had a year ago with a fellow villager. Sources from the investigative team told ABC News that the 57-year-old and his acquaintance, who is now being investigated by police, got into an argument and got into a fistfight last year.
According to the testimonies of the residents of the village of Sume, but also of the family members of the two victims, the cause of the quarrel at that time was the trading of timber.
Gjoke Gurra, who until 2008 served in the ranks of the police in Shkoder, recently together with his son, Eduard, was engaged in the activity of trading wood for fire. They had occupied several forest areas to cut the wood he sold it in the city of Shkodra.
The conflict between Gjoke Gurraj and his fellow villager a year ago ended in silence, but the police suspect that this fight may have caused the murder of father and son on the afternoon of June 29 at the entrance to Sume village.
Gjoke and Eduard Gurra were shot with 8 Kalashnikov bullets in their car while they were going to the village where they have lived for years to see the damage caused by the burning of the apartment. The burning of the apartment before the father and son were assassinated is suspected to have been organized on purpose by the perpetrators to ambush them.
Gjoke Gurra also worked as the village headman of Bruçaj. As an investigative track for uncovering the assassination, the police also have that of the cultivation of narcotic plants, where they are verifying the cases that the 57-year-old may have reported to the police while holding the post of the village headman.
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