GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul. 16, CMC – The police are investigating a deadly shooting which occurred just before midnight on Tuesday in the town of Buxton, to the east of here, leaving two men dead and at least six others nursing serious injuries.
Dead are 17-year-old Leon McFarlene and 38-year-old businessman Mark Anthony Correia .
Those wounded in what Police are treating as attempted murder are Linden Adams, 60; Alwin Fiffee, 54; Davel Talbot, 26; Akeem Tuman, 18; Sherwin Nero, 35 and a 17-year-old male whose name is being withheld.
Investigators say the group was gathered at a shop owned by Asha Robinson, a 41-year-old businesswoman, socialising and playing cards and dominoes when the attack occurred.
Robinson told Police she retired to bed around 11 p.m. (local time) leaving the men inside her shop. Just before midnight, she was awakened by the sound of multiple gunshots. On checking, she found Correia slumped over a table, bleeding heavily from his mouth, nose, and back.
She raised an alarm and with the help of neighbours, the wounded were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). McFarlene was pronounced dead on arrival.
Correia’s body was taken to the Enmore Regional Hospital where he too was pronounced dead.
Both bodies have been sent for post-mortem examinations.
Those injured remain hospitalised .
Crime scene investigators recovered forty spent shells of varying calibres along with four projectiles and two fragments, all of which have been lodged as evidence.
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