Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 28-year-old Terry Ault, a miner of Lot 63 South Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who was shot and killed in the wee hours of Sunday at a pool party within the community.
Guyana Times understands that Ault had left his home on Saturday evening to attend a pool party within the area. However, just before 03:00h the following morning, he was killed during an alleged altercation.
On Tuesday this publication visited the home of the deceased and spoke to the father, George Ault, who explained that neighbours went to his house at about 03:00h and told him that his son was shot.
“Coming onto 3 o’clock in the morning some neighbours from the neighbourhood come and start hollering pato! pato! come! come! And they say you son dead,” the grieving man related. He said that he rushed to the scene but his son was already taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The grieving father also confirmed that two females were arrested and are being questioned in relation to the shooting.
“We went to the police and they say they catch two girls, that were going away after the incident happen…some police guy went in the area, they didn’t know he was a police and they [the girls] say ‘we man just kill someone ah dem’….and I understand they pick them up and carry them at the station and start do the investigations,” Ault related.
The visibly shaken father described his son as a “people person” adding that all he wants is justice for his son’s unexpected death. “He’s peaceful, he is a people man, he like everybody he got that loving type of way…I would glad if I could get lil justice.” Ault pleaded.
A post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted on the body of Ault today. He leaves to mourn his daughter, reputed wife, father and four other siblings.
George Ault
