Gunmen killed a 72-year-old man and badly wounded his employer before snatching a bag containing $8 million they were taking to a bank, in a brazen attack in the heart of Georgetown early yesterday morning.
Victor Da Silva of Lot 10 Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, died at the scene from at least one gunshot which penetrated the windscreen and hit him in the chest, while gas station owner Cecil Albert Gajadhar, also 72, of Foulis/Enmore, East Coast Demerara sustained a gunshot wound to side of his head near the right ear.
The body of Da Silva remained in the front passenger seat of the silver Honda vehicle that