GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Aug 26, CMC – A 10 year-old child is nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after his parents died in an apparent murder-suicide on Tuesday.
The authorities have identified the parents as 36 year-old Teekadai Atiya Solomon and Alroy Solomon, 36, who is reported to have shot their young son before turning the gun on himself. The woman was an employee of ExxonMobil Guyana and the couple had recently filed for divorce.
She is reported to have been renting a property on Charlotte Street in the capital after her house was destroyed in a fire a few months ago and the property owner’s brother Coel Marks, told reporters at the scene that the couple had domestic issues and that police are investigating at least two shooting incidents at the property within the last three months.
Eyewitnesses said that they heard multiple gunshots and the woman, who was already nursing a broken arm from an accident, collapsed at the front of a building close to where her home is located.
The injured son was found in a yard, while the shooter was found dead in the back of the yard.
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