A twenty-one-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student was this morning murdered by bandits, who attacked him and his girlfriend as they sat in his car parked next to the seawall.
Stabroek News was told that Anthony Ting-A-Kee, 21, of 74 Robb Street, Lacytown was shot twice, once in his chest and once in his foot, as he sat in his car. He was then tossed out by the bandits, who drove off with the vehicle just after midnight. According to reports the young man and his girlfriend were parked on the Rupert Craig Highway alongside the seawall just before Sheriff Street when the incident occurred.
The two men approached the car on foot and demanded cash but Ting-A-Kee did not have the amount they wanted and one of them said that he should be shot. The other refused and the two bandits are said to have become involved in an argument before one of them whipped out a gun, shot him twice and dumped him. It is not clear how the girlfriend escaped but Stabroek News understands she is now assisting the police in their investigation. The young man’s body was discovered in the grass near the seawall. The car was said to have been recovered by lawmen but this newspaper was unable to determine where it was found.
Ting-A-Kee was the son of a popular Robb Street resident known as ‘Georgie.’ He was too distraught to speak to Stabroek News as he wept openly this morning.
“I can’t believe he is dead, I can’t believe he is dead,” the man kept saying over and over about his only son.
The man and his son are neighbours of popular Robb Street drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul, who himself was murdered two weeks ago.
