Hours after the gunning down of Arcade clothes vendor, Andrew Fraser, 30, of Lot 565 East La Penitence, Georgetown in Warlock, the Police are yet to make an arrest, but a manhunt was launched for three men in connection with the fatal
Andrew Fraser, called “Zeggy”, was pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC
shooting.
This was according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, who further stated that the three men are known characters to the Guyana Police Force (GPF). He added that based on information provided and the identities of the men were made known, the Police conducted several searches in various areas but came up empty handed.
The now dead clothes vendor, who was due to leave the country today, was reportedly caught in the crossfire but was not the intended target. The target was reportedly Timothy St Hill, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara. After the shooting incident, the gunmen entered a dark coloured Toyota Carina 212 motor car and fled the scene.
At the scene on Friday, a resident who asked to remain anonymous, told Guyana Times that he was sitting on a bench in his shop when he heard the sounds of gunshots and upon investigating, he saw two men shooting towards a nearby shop. One, he noted, was a “rasta fella” but due to the darkness, he could not have seen their faces.
Upon seeing this, he ran for cover. He accused the Police of being involved in the shooting. “The Police was right on the corner liming and wait when the people start do the shooting… after the shooting, de man them turn left and then they turn right and play like they come to the scene so I itate that the Police know what going on with the shooting,” he explained.
He is maintaining that the gunmen are known to the Police. The man claimed that since he has been operating his shop, he witnessed two others being gunned down in similar fashion.
“Is people in the hood just envy the people in the hood how they does move… everybody in the hood does live in love… is boys from outside the hood want break up the love we does be living in so they come and shoot up and kill innocent people… that man (Fraser) don’t do nobody nothing. He don’t look in anybody direction. Nothing,” he stated.
In addition, the eyewitness stated that Fraser was shot at least five times, but recalled seeing one bullet wound to his neck and that might have been the fatal wound. After the gunmen fled the scene, Fraser reportedly took two hard breaths and stopped breathing.
The man noted that as they placed the injured Fraser in the car, he was already dead. Also injured during the crossfire was Stanley Abrams of North East La Penitence, Georgetown. He sustained at least two bullet wounds to his body and was admitted a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital. His condition is listed as stable.
Meanwhile, at the East Ruimveldt Outpost, Dawn Sampson, mother of Timothy St Hill, admitted that her son was the intended target. She noted that her nephew was at the “right place at the right time” but he was not the one who was supposed to be killed. “Meh nephew was drinking he porridge and mining he business when they shoot he up,” she noted.
She is also of the belief that senior Police ranks are involved in the shooting incident. Her son, St Hill, was only recently charged for entering Guyana illegally from Suriname. St Hill was also fingered in the Rio Night Club shooting incident sometime back.
His mother however, claimed that the Police had recently accused her son of being connected with the guns and ammunition that were found during a raid at John Street, Campbellville, Georgetown. He was arrested but was released after the 72-hour detention period had elapsed.
Sampson noted that she is a woman of God and no weapon formed against her and her son shall prosper, hence her son is alive today. She described members of the Police Force as wicked, claiming that they are bent on implicating her son for crimes he did not commit.
The mother of the dead man, on the night of the shooting, recalled enquiring about his flight, after which he took a shower and told her that he was going on the road to get something to eat. His intention, she noted, after eating was to collect a suitcase from his boss.
“As I went to bathe, I hear ‘bow! bow!’ but I didn’t take it as nothing, but soon after meh other son run home and say ‘mommy! mommy! Gavin get shoot’,” she noted. As she rushed to the scene, she saw her son’s motionless body being placed in a vehicle to be taken to the hospital.
The young man was described as a pleasant individual who was hard working and caring. He leaves to mourn his parents and siblings.
