-was here for funeral
A Canada-based Guyanese man is nursing gunshot wounds in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown after bandits attacked and robbed him on Monday night.
Alan Jagnarine came to Guyana on Saturday to attend the funeral of his friend Ronald Bassoo, the businessman who was killed in an accident last week on the Vryheid’s Lust public road.
A relative told Stabroek News that Jagnarine is staying at his cousin’s home at Calendar Street, Albouystown. The woman explained that she, Jagnarine’s cousin Nafeeza Khan and a teenage boy lived at the house. She said she was resting in bed around 11.30 pm when Jagnarine came home and Khan went downstairs to open the gate for him. She said soon after about eight gunshots rang out and “I hear she come running into the house screaming for help…We thought bandits were attacking us so we just stay quietly in bed and waited.”
Two gunmen had accosted and shot Jagnarine after they attempted to rob him and he resisted. The man sustained injuries to his left leg and his wrist. The bandits took Jagnarine’s cellular phone and made good their escape, leaving him in a pool of blood. Khan “was grazed on her leg by one of the bullets,” the relative said of the 15-minute episode, and Khan watched most of it from her upstairs front window.
Relatives also pointed out four bullet holes left in their front zinc fence.
A friend of the injured man said that Jagnarine went to Bassoo’s wake that night and “Is later that night I get the call that he get shot and I rushed over to take him to the hospital.” The man said, “I don’t know what is happening in this country. Imagine he come for his friend funeral and look where he end up.”
