A 37-year-old miner was shot dead at a camp at Five Star, North West District on Wednesday and a team of police ranks are hunting for a former employer who allegedly committed the offence.
Reports are that Devon Moore of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara was in the camp with five other persons when the man known only as ‘Buja’ entered and shot him at close range with an unlicensed shotgun.
According to relatives, Moore who had been living in the interior for the past 18 years earned his living as a farmer.
He recently got into mining reportedly to “earn fast money.”
Two weeks ago, they said, he left to work on another dredge that recently started operating. An excavator operator also left at the same time.
Reports are that the former employer approached the operator and asked him to work for him again. However, he refused and the assailant thought Moore had told him not to return.
He then left and within a few minutes he returned and fired the shots at Moore.
Police said in a release that the man was taken to the Port Kaituma Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The release said too that a team of police ranks has been dispatched to the area to conduct investigations into the murder.
A brother, Reynold Moore said he received a call about the shooting around 2:30 pm and he travelled to the area located over 20 miles away.
He said they never made it back until about 2:30 am yesterday and they chartered a plane to take the body to Georgetown.
It is now at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour where it is awaiting post-mortem examination and burial.
