A Suriname national was killed last evening near his home at No.59 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Dead is Lucian Agard, 30, a labourer, of Lot 101 No. 59 Village, and formerly of Suriname, who is believed to have been fatally shot by unknown men in front of his home.
In a statement, police said the man was found on the roadway in front of his residence with a suspected bullet wound to the head.
A crying Disrikha Bhola, also known as Tricia, 18, who was Agard’s common-law wife, told Stabroek News that the man went to a shop in nearby No. 58 Village to purchase groceries.
She added that she was upstairs in their home when she heard a strange noise, which she suspected to be a gunshot. “I hear something fiya off, me na know is what but it sounded like a gunshot,” she said, adding that she then peeped through her window and saw persons moving around whilst her husband stood close to their fence.
Bhola noted that her husband screamed out to her that the men had a gun. “He seh, ‘Tricia them get gun!” she recalled, adding that she then heard him questioning the gunmen, “Wa meh do bhai? Wa meh do bhai?”
Subsequent to her husband’s alarm, Bhola said she took their children, who were in the living room, to their bedroom, where she stayed for a few minutes. “I wait in the room to see if meh gon hear anything else but the place turn quiet and I come out,” she said, adding that she then raised an alarm and called out to Agard’s uncle, who lives in the house front of them.
Agard’s uncle, Mahase Dyal, later said that after Bhola called out, he rushed to the scene where he found Agard lying motionless in a curved position. He added that a wound was seen at Agard’s forehead.
It was Dyal who called the police, who arrived about 15 minutes to investigate.
Agard, a father of three, was described as a well-known individual who did all kinds of work to supplement his income.
Bhola said her husband was a very hardworking person, while noting that he was involved in rice planting, cleaning of drains, carpentry, and masonry along with other work.
She said two that the two of them had been living together for over two years. Agard has been living permanently in Guyana for the past two years and made his last visit to his land of birth in October last year.
