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Feb 18, 2009 News
A man, who police say is wanted for murder, successfully dodged several bullets fired by ranks from the Guyana Defence Force’s Intelligence Unit during a surprise raid at around 08:00 hours yesterday at Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara.
The man, who resides in the Melanie Damishana Squatting Area, was riding along the Melanie Damishana Market Road when operatives jumped out of a taxi and opened fire.
However all the bullets missed the target, and instead ended up shattering the window of a nearby house and sending the occupants ducking for cover.
The suspect remained at large up to press time.
The raid, which appeared to be planned from intelligence gathered that the suspect was in the area, ended up as a search of several abandoned houses in the community. The normally busy market area was expectedly devoid of the usual limers.
According to an eyewitness, as the GDF intelligence ranks discharged rounds at the suspect, he calmly continued to ride his bicycle as if nothing was happening.
He then accelerated when the rank began running after him.
The suspect is wanted in connection with the beating to death of 19-year-old Dennis Richards in August last year.
Richards, called ‘Junior’, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital after a brutal beating, allegedly at the hands of the men who had called him from his home.
The police had said that Richards’s death followed an incident during which he was allegedly beaten about his body with pieces of wood by four men at Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara.
He was left badly wounded in an abandoned house in the Melanie Damishana squatting area until he was picked up by his relatives who were contacted.
This newspaper was told that the killing stemmed from a marijuana deal that had gone sour.
Police had later detained the suspect’s two teenaged daughters at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, as they were about to board a flight for Trinidad shortly after the incident.
The police had claimed that the teenagers and a woman were detained to assist in locating the murder suspect.
This newspaper understands that the suspect’s wife has been detained and questioned by the police on several occasions for information about her husband’s alleged activities.
Meanwhile, Urmine Green, whose house at Linden Drive, Melanie Damishana, was damaged during yesterday’s incident, is strongly of the view that the ranks pursuing the suspect acted recklessly.
She said that she was sweeping her yard when she heard several gunshots.
She said that she enquired from her daughter, who was in the house, what was happening and was told that there was shooting in the area.
Greene said that she ducked and managed to run inside to the safety of her house.
“My neighbour was in her yard and she had to duck for shelter. I see people scattering on the road and having to duck fuh shelter,” Greene said.
She said that one of the bullets shattered several louvre panes with the warhead landing on her kitchen floor.
It was subsequently retrieved by the ranks who, according to reports, took a statement from Greene with a view to compensating her.
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