The family of the Danielstown, Essequibo Coast man who died on Wednesday after being shot by the police is upset at the way the law enforcers handled the situation and kept them in the dark about his whereabouts.
Leon Alphonso died while being transferred from the Suddie Hospital to the George-town Public Hospital. The police said he had been shot in his foot.
The police had said in a statement on Wednesday that during investigations into a report of damage to property involving the windscreen of a motor vehicle, at about 3:15h, the police went to Danielstown to arrest 39 year old Alphonso who was the alleged perpetrator.
During efforts to arrest him, the statement said that Alphonso attacked the police with a cutlass and a claw bar causing the police to resort to the use of force and he was shot and injured to his left foot. He was taken to the Suddie Hospital but the police in a later press release said that Alphonso was pronounced dead