GDF Lance Corporal, girlfriend executed in Sophia

– father of Forde’s 4-year-old son arrested

A Guyana Defence Force Lance Corporal and his girlfriend were riddled with bullets moments after leaving a party in ‘C’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown on Wednesday evening.
Dead are 26-year-old Daniel Fraser, of Lot 598 ‘A’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown and 23-year-old Shanicka Forde, formerly of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown and of Barbados.
Based on reports received, the now dead couple was at a party at ‘C’ Field, Sophia, but left for home at about 23:30h on motorcycle CK 9296.
However, as they were heading along the last street in ‘B’ Field Sophia, they were confronted by a male on a bicycle, who discharged several rounds at them before fleeing the scene.

Fraser reportedly died on the spot, while Forde succumbed on the way to the Georgetown Public Hospital. Fraser reportedly sustained two gunshot wounds to the chest in the vicinity of the heart, while Forde received three gunshot injuries – one to the chest, one to her right knee; and one to the right-side abdomen, which exited the left-side abdomen.
At the home of the late Daniel Fraser, his mother Michelle Fraser explained that she was at home when she received the devasting news.
“I get a call from a friend who tell me that Dan get shoot and that I must go to the hospital, but when I reach, he de done dead already…Meh other son who went and see, pick he up and take him to the hospital. The girl get more shots than him,” the grieving mother stated.

She explained that the late Daniel had gone to a friend’s party, and it was when they were coming home that the shooting took place.
“I don’t think it is a robbery, because his bike was there, he cellphone, everything was there… Only yesterday he go pon leave… He only joined the army like four years ago,” the distraught mother explained.
This mother is unaware whether her son had had an old grievance with anyone, but she described him as a jovial and well-disciplined young man. She noted that, from all indications, Forde was the target, since she received most of the bullets.
The woman added that the late Shanicka Forde arrived in Guyana only in July, to look after her birth certificate in order to join the Barbados Defence Force.
Guyana Times was told that Fraser and Forde became involved about a year ago while she was in Barbados, and would since normally communicate with each other via social media. Upon her arrival in Guyana in July, they reportedly hooked up.
A friend of the late Daniel Fraser, who had hosted the party, told Guyana Times that at just about 23:30h, Fraser and Forde left on their motorcycle, and within minutes, he heard the gunshots. He and others ran out to check, and it was then that he saw Fraser and his girlfriend lying on the ground, with the motorcycle engine still running. Fraser, he noted, had already died, but Forde was still breathing.
The man, who asked not to be identified, said that after they rushed out, he saw a light moving away from the scene. From all appearances, he said, it had to be someone riding a bicycle and carrying a torchlight.
By that time, he added, family members of the dead man were contacted. Within minutes, Fraser’s brother Darrell arrived on the scene, picked up his injured brother and his girlfriend, placed them in a taxi, and took them to the hospital, but it was too late.
The Police were also summoned, and launched an investigation.
Meanwhile, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, when contacted, told Guyana Times that a suspect was arrested after detectives received information. He added that the man in custody is the father of the dead woman’s four-year-old son.
The suspect, according to reports received, had threatened to kill Forde several times after she got involved with the now dead Lance Corporal. During her visit to Guyana, Forde had stayed at a friend.
Investigations into the execution-style killing of Fraser and Forde are continuing.