A 23-year-old man who left his Roxanne Burnham, East La Penitence, Georgetown home to visit a female friend at Mackenzie, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), lost his life during a drive-by shooting at Sunflower Street, Wismar, Linden. His friend was also shot and injured.
Dead is Delron McKenzie and injured is Calvin Daly.
Both men were shot at about 21:50h on Saturday evening. The injured man told Police that he and his now dead friend arrived in Linden at about 21:00h via public transportation and went to a popular fast-food place to make a purchase.
While at the location, Daly said he was given directions from his female friend via telephone to join a boat at the Mackenzie shore.
On arrival at the Wismar shore, the man called the female and was given further directions but a short while after she called him back and told him to turn around since she would be sending a car to pick them up.
The injured man told Police that they then walked out of Sunflower Street, where they saw a silver wagon car turned around and as Delron McKenzie approached the car to open the back door, a man opened the door first and started to shoot at him and another male came out of the front passenger seat and opened fire too.
Daly said he ran for cover. He told Police that the car had three male occupants at the time but he did not recognise any of them. He said that following the shooting, the men re-joined the car and drove in a southern direction towards Silver City Street. The injured man told Police that he did not know the female that McKenzie was going to meet.
Police have since said that Daly received two gunshot wounds on the left and right lower arm with abrasions to both of his arms. He was escorted to the Linden Hospital Complex where he was admitted a patient and scheduled to be transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for surgery.
McKenzie was also taken to the Linden Hospital Complex where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The body was then escorted to the GJetso Funeral Home awaiting post-mortem. An investigation has been launched.
