Ex-GDF rank beaten to death after attempted robbery

A 22-year-old former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is now dead after he attempted to rob a female shopkeeper at Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), on Monday evening.

Dead is Daniel Jermaine Forde of Lot 759 B Field Sophia, Georgetown.
According to reports, Forde allegedly attempted to rob a grocery shop at about 19:30h on Monday at Silver Hill, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.
According to the police, the 36-year-old shopkeeper was operating her business when Forde, armed with a cutlass, entered and demanded money.
The woman raised an alarm and Forde began to chop at her shop grill and also damaged a flat-screen television.
Residents, after hearing the woman’s screams for help, came out in their numbers and flocked the shop. The residents managed to disarmed Forde and gave him a sound thrashing, before handing him over to the police who were summoned. The police transported the man for medical treatment.
However, he succumbed to his injuries at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre at around 01:40h on Tuesday.
Photographs seen by this publication which were shared on social media showed that residents tied the man and stuffed him inside a tyre. A document dated 2018 showed that he was Absent Without Leave (AOL) in August 2015 and was discharged from the Guyana Defence Force in November 2017. No one has been detained as Police continue their investigation.