… dead man’s father calls on President for better security strategy
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum on Friday told Guyana Times that Police are hunting two known characters in connection with the gunning down of 39-year-old Paul Anthony Daniels at Independence Boulevard, Albouystown, Georgetown on
Paul Anthony Daniels
Thursday.
He explained that the fiancé of the now dead man provided a description of the two men to the Police, who would have immediately resorted to their database for assistance. In addition, he noted that the Police are working with several leads and are hopeful to apprehend the perpetrators.
However, the father of the dead man has accused President David Granger of encouraging the bloodshed in the country.
He noted that the Head of State is a religious man, but yet he is not doing much in terms of a crime fighting strategy to curb the violence in Guyana. The grieving father said that in most crime cases, the perpetrators are released easily.
“When they come out, they go back and do the same thing because they ain’t mean to work… the President got to set an example, he got to hang some of them,” he noted. Another relative claimed that the President should “step up his game” and deploy Police ranks not only along Regent Street, but also in the “ghetto”.
“People coming in you house and kill you and then he claiming he go help poor people… this boy is an innocent boy who does work hard for he money,” he noted.
He further stated that since the coalition Government took office, the crime situation has escalated. Relatives also lashed out at Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, pleading for the Minister to roll out a proper crime fighting strategy.
The footballer attached at the Georgetown Football Club was on Thursday morning gunned down moments after dropping his fiancé at her Independence Boulevard home.
The man reportedly went to drop home his fiancé and sat down to look at television for a while when he was gunned down. Based on reports received, the two armed men entered the home through a northern door which was left open.
Upon entering the house, Daniels and his fiancé were held at gunpoint. The gun men relieved him of a gold chain that he was wearing at the time and an undisclosed sum of cash, after which they exited the house.
Daniels, a construction worker, went in pursuit of the men, with the suspects discharging several rounds at him, one hitting him in the region of his stomach.
He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. At the scene on Thursday morning, persons recalled only a few days ago two men had visited the area enquiring about Daniels’ whereabouts, leaving them to believe that the shooting might have stemmed from an old grievance.
It is also suspected that the now dead man might have known his killers, since they called out his name as they made their way into the house. After the shooting, the two men escaped on two pedal cycles.
