Latest update December 12th, 2024 1:00 AM
Land dispute leaves one dead, one critical
Dead: Shawn Fraser
Injured: Odwin Bindha
A dispute over a plot of rice land in the Corentyne backlands has left one man dead and his brother critical with gunshot wounds to the chest.
Shawn Fraser’s bullet riddled body was recovered yesterday afternoon from the plot of rice land in the Hogstye Backdam, which he and his sibling, Odwin Bindha, were cultivating.
Both Fraser, 38 and Bindha, 33 were tending to their rice land when they came under attack around 17:00 hours by a man and his two sons with whom they had a long standing dispute over the same plot of land.
Bindha survived the attack and related the grizzly details of the assault.
This newspaper understands that another brother of the two victims was on another farm not far away when he saw Bindha running towards him with blood all over his body.
Just before collapsing, Bindha managed to relate to his brother that his other sibling Shawn Fraser was killed and he managed to escape the attack perpetrated by the men who were considered their bitter enemies.
Kim Providence, a sister of the two victims, told this newspaper last night that she received a telephone call from the brother who was not involved in the incident, requesting that she come to the backlands in the family’s car, driven by another brother to collect the wounded Bindha.
“When I about to leave, the phone ring again and they tell me that Shawn dead,” the woman said, hardly able to control her emotions.
She said that in her haste she and the other brother drove past the location where Bindha was lying, clinging to life.
When they eventually turned back and came upon two men near a pen. One of the two menacingly asked her why she was staring at him.
The man angrily enquired from her where another brother, Jermaine was and she replied in kind, “What you asking fuh he for?”
At the time she had no idea that the two men with whom she had spoken had carried out the attack.
Providence said that they eventually arrived at the area where the badly wounded Bindha was lying, and they picked him up and rushed him to the nearby health facility.
“While we carrying he, he tell we lift up he head so that he could mek it to Whim. Is while he travelling dat he tell me what happened,” Providence told this newspaper.
She said that her brother, Shawn Fraser, was first shot in his head and immediately collapsed to the ground.
“Shawn get shoot up all over he body. Like dem stand over he and shoot he. All he hand and he body get bullets. Odwin run, like they thought he dead; he get it in he chest,” Providence told Kaieteur News.
According to the woman, police subsequently arrived on the scene and managed to arrest the two men while their father escaped.
This newspaper understands that no weapon was recovered.
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