A Guyanese father and son, who reportedly went on a “robbery spree” on the Venezuelan border close to Guyana, were on Thursday evening shot dead by Venezuelan soldiers after the duo reportedly opened fire on them.
According to reports, 52-year-old Orlando Fitzgerald and his 17-year-old son, Jesse, were shot dead after they refused to stop at a checkpoint and when warning shots were fired at their boat by the soldiers they returned fire. Reports from the area say that one Venezuelan soldier was killed in the incident.
While the relatives of the two are saying that the men were robbed and then killed, Guyanese from that