Electrician’s murder: 2 suspected bandits killed by Police

Just hours after 19-year-old Joshua Denny, an electrician of Festival City, Georgetown, was laid to rest, his killers met the same fate after they were shot dead during a shootout with Police at Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown.
Dead are Quacy Jupiter, called “Ding Docker” and David Smith, called “Burlyn”. They were killed by ranks at the University of Guyana (UG) Access Road around 18:00h.
This was confirmed by Head of the Communications Unit at the Guyana Police Force, Mark Ramotar.
According to Ramotar, at the time ranks were acting on information received that the suspects, who had eluded Police in Albouystown, Georgetown on Friday, were in the Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown area.
As ranks closed in on the suspects, there was an exchange of fire between the two men and officers during which the bandits were fatally shot.
Police have since confirmed that two firearms, along with eight rounds of 9mm ammunition, were recovered from the scene.
During a search in the Albouystown area, cops managed to recover several items, including a haversack, a motorcycle, a licence plate, face masks, a helmet and other motorcycle parts that were used during the robbery.

On Friday, a 16-year-old was arrested during an operation at Sussex Street, Albouystown, Georgetown and questioned in relation to the murder, but was subsequently released from custody.
When contacted on Saturday, the Head of the Police Communications Unit told <<<Guyana Times>>> that the teen that was questioned had no involvement in the man’s murder.
It was reported that when the Police received information about the suspects’ whereabouts, they swooped down on a location in Albouystown, but went to the wrong house.
It was during that time one of the suspects’ aunts, a businesswoman in the community, hid her nephew and his accomplice in her home until the Police left.
The woman has since admitted to Police that she did hide the bandits from the officers. She was subsequently arrested and remains in Police custody.
In 2019, Jupiter was charged for robbery under arms and possession of ammunition. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison and was recently released from jail.
Smith, on the other hand, was arrested and charged in May 2021 for robbery under arms and discharging a loaded firearm.
On the day Denny was killed, eyewitnesses who described the incident as bizarre say the gunmen bolted with the man’s gold chain after shooting him.
Some of the residents around the area said they live in fear, indicating that their fears have been heightened following the young man’s death on Thursday morning.
Denny was killed moments after leaving for work at approximately 07:20h.
The man was found by his sister Felicia Denny shortly after the incident, lying on the roadway with blood oozing from his chest. She said that her brother called her minutes after he had left home, informing her that he had been shot.
Upon rushing to the scene, she found him in a critical state.
This publication was also informed that the now dead man had left for work before, but returned home to use the washroom. It was when he left home for the second time that he was attacked and shot two houses away from where he lived.
He was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, and died while undergoing emergency surgery.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, hundreds, clad in red and black, flocked the now dead man’s home at Nutmeg Street, North Ruimveldt to pay their last respects.
There was not a dry eye as persons pleaded with authorities for the man’s family to get justice. Shortly after, the bandits were killed by the Police in the shootout. (G9)