A miner is now dead and his wife hospitalised after he shot the 42-year-old woman at their Lot 24 North
Road, Bourda, Georgetown, home.
Dead is Theodore Adams, who shot himself, after shooting his wife to the mouth.
The injured woman, Sarojini Warnauth, is in critical condition at a City hospital.
Reports are at about 19:20hrs, neighbours rescued the woman and rushed her to a local hospital after they saw her trying to jump through a window from the second flat of the two-storey home.
While details remain sketchy, this newspaper was told that after neighbours rescued Warnauth, they heard a single gunshot.
Speaking with Guyana Times, the dead man’s brother, Orlando Adams, said that his brother has been ill for some time now.
She said the couple were together for 17 years and shared one child. That child is 9 years old.
The Police were summoned and they found the license firearm holder dead in the house. (More details in our Friday edition of the Guyana Times)