AG does not want to rush investigators in arresting murder suspect

Guam's Attorney General says he does not want to rush the police investigation into the murder reported in Sumai in October. 

The family of 54-year-old Hagat resident Edwin Pirando continues to mourn his death and wait for answers. 

AG Doug Moylan says his prosecutors need more information from investigators in order to bring it before a grand jury in the Superior Court. 

“We don't want to rush it. We want to make sure that we're ready to go for a trial immediately once we indict it. And I think that that was the choice that was made, it's still an open investigation,” He said.

Moylan goes on, “There are no statute limitations for murder, by the way. So we're not running up against the wall on a deadline but obviously, we don't want murderers walking around out there. So you know, we're going to, we're going to get to the bottom of this. But we're going to do it in a way that we feel comfortable, the prosecutors feel comfortable that a jury would be satisfied that the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt has been proven.”

Meantime, the suspect police are confident that the alleged killer remains free. 

As KUAM reported, the victim's body was found near the Atantano shrine in Sumai on Oct. 15.

Authorities say he was badly beaten and appeared to have been hit by a car.