The Guyana Police Force is yet to seek advice on whether to institute charges against the Tucville, Georgetown, man who opened fire on a car that pulled up in front of his gate, killing one person and injuring another.
Speaking with Guyana Times on Thursday, acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy explained that the investigation in the matter is ongoing and that the Police are awaiting the results of the post-mortem examination before they seek advice on whether to charge the suspect.
Dead: Colin Malcolm Perriera
Meanwhile, the woman who was also injured in the shooting is still hospitalised. On Tuesday, sometime around 21:00h, 24-year-old Colin Perriera of Barr Street, Kitty, was in a motor car which was being driven by his colleague, Gailall Chacon, 20, of Port Kaituma, when they drove onto the bridge of a Tucville house in an attempt to reverse.
However, as they were about to reverse off of the bridge, the car was riddled with bullets by the owner of the property, causing Perriera to sustain three gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen while Chacon was shot to her abdomen.
Based on reports received, the shooter, who has since been taken into Police custody, allegedly claimed that he thought the occupants of the heavily tinted car were going to commit a robbery on his property; hence he opened fire on the vehicle.
The shooter told investigators that he was in the yard when he saw the vehicle and whipped out his firearm and discharged several rounds as the car drove onto his bridge.
However, it was reported that Perriera managed to exit the car and ran to safety but the businessman kept discharging rounds at him. He eventually collapsed in front of a house a short distance away.
A teenager, who was standing where the man collapsed, explained that after the man dropped to the roadway, he called out for help and told them that someone else was also shot.
“He said that he was shot so we called 911 but like after 20 minutes a Police vehicle pull up and they take them to the hospital… he was still alive when the vehicle left but they pronounce he dead at the hospital”.
According to the teen, while waiting for the Police, several persons went to the car where they saw the young lady lying in a pool of blood. She too was rushed to the hospital where she remains a patient.
