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One dead, several injured in drive-by shooting on Durban street
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Kaieteur News – A man has been confirmed dead and several others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds in a drive-by shooting on Durban Street in Georgetown, police said on Saturday.
Anthony Havercombe shot dead in drive-by
The shooting occurred at about 5:45 a.m. that day and killed 40-year-old vendor Anthony Havercome of South Ruimvelt, Georgetown, who was reportedly suffering from bullets.
Those hospitalized with gunshot wounds included vendor Travis Ceres, 25, of East La Penedens, Teon Allen, 38, of Sofia, Stanley Matthews, 31, a worker from Sofia, Destra Authur, 33, another vendor and East La Penedens resident, and Lenox Wayne, 39, a security guard from Turkey.
Serres was shot in the lower abdomen, Allen, no stranger to the law, was shot in the shoulder. Matthews was shot twice, one in the left hand and the other in the left thigh. Arthur was shot in the left leg, and Wayne was shot in the right thigh and hand.
Detectives learned the victims may have attended an “all-black party” at V’s Flavour Delight, 23 D’Urban Street, Lodge. However, some people were still drinking before the party when police shut it down at around 5am on Saturday.
The host of the event, Keon Aaron, said he was closing the bar when he heard several gunshots. It was reported that when he was trying to identify the source of the gunshots, he saw a black car speeding westward from the scene. He then saw several people covered in blood being put into the car and rushed to the city hospital.
Subsequently, the police went to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for inspection and learned that a shooting incident had occurred in the hospital, several people were shot, and one of them died.
Injured, Teon Allen
Kaieteur News It was later learnt that there was another victim in the shooting, a miner named Lloyd Roberts from Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
He suffered gunshot wounds to the right chest and left hip; some believe Roberts may have been the real target of the drive-by attack. Roberts is currently being treated at a private hospital.
After further investigation, the police found the car suspected to have occurred in the shooting.
The car was reportedly found parked on the East Lane of Manati Plaza in South Rumwelt, Georgetown.
“The CID team processed and photographed the vehicle and found 11 spent 9mm shell casings and one spent .223 shell casing in the front and rear seats of the vehicle,” police said, adding that “two suspected bullet holes were found below the right rear passenger door and there appeared to be bullet graze marks above the left rear fuel tank”. Police were able to track down the owner of the vehicle, a 33-year-old businesswoman named Coleen Burrowes.
She told investigators that two men on an XR-Honda motorcycle stole her car at Victor and Durban streets in Georgetown around 4 a.m. Saturday.
The woman claimed she was in the car with her cousin and stopped to urinate when two men rode towards her on a bicycle.
Burrows went on to say the pillion passenger got off the motorcycle and pointed a gun at her, demanding she hand over the vehicle.
Fearing for their lives, she and the other passengers in the car got out, while the gunman entered the car and drove away, followed by his accomplice on a motorcycle.
She immediately went to the East La Penedens Police Department, where she reported her car stolen.
The investigation is still ongoing.
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