A Coroner’s Inquest is now underway to determine if anyone is criminally liable in the deaths of Paul Bascom and Alberto Grant, who were fatally shot by lawmen over two years ago.
Bascom and Grant were killed on December 7, 2013, in the yard of a businessman, who police allege they were going to rob.
A Guyana Police Force statement on the shooting said police, acting on information, were on a stakeout at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara as the men were about to carry out their plan and there was an exchange of gunfire. As a result, both men sustained gunshot wounds to their faces.
Police said too that a .38 snub-nose revolver with two live rounds and two spent shells,