A man is now dead and another was injured after two shooters exited a car and shot at them in front of a shop in `Warlock’, East La Penitence before escaping.
According to information reaching Stabroek News, Andrew ‘Ziggy’ Fraser, 30, from East La Penitence, was at a shop on Ginep Street, along with Stanley Abrams, of North East La Penitence when a heavily tinted, silver-coloured car drove up and two men exited before opening fire on them.
“I was in my house, which is not far from the shop at the time and is around 8:15PM cause I was watching the news when I hear this noise and I thought it was squib first but then it was too loud,” an eyewitness, who did not want to be named, related to Stabroek News last night.
She explained that subsequently she heard the barrage of gunshots and the vehicle sped away in the southern direction and vanished. The woman added that she heard about eight gunshots and after everyone ran out of their houses to see what was happening, Fraser and Abrams were seen lying unconscious on the ground.
Jean Adams, Fraser’s mother, explained to Stabroek News that her son had left their East La Penitence home about 15 minutes earlier to “go get some food.”
“I just got a call that Ziggy get shoot and I rush to the scene and he was there lying on the ground,” the woman related. He was said to have sustained around five gunshots.
She said that Fraser owns a stall in the Vendor’s Arcade and was slated to return to the United States on Saturday.
His mother, along with the other residents are baffled as to why they two men, who are virtually unknown to each other, were attacked so viciously. Stabroek News was made to understand that a patrol van filled with police officers was in the area but failed to stop the attack or intercept the perpetrators.
“They were at the corner away when this whole thing buss out and they didn’t even turn back and come through the street. Them man [the shooters] even speed pass them and they go all the way around and then come on the scene,” one of the eye witnesses related.
Even after they arrived, the man related that the police only loaded Abrams into their vehicle and rushed him to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he remains a patient, while they left Fraser on the ground. He was then subsequently rushed to the hospital by another vehicle.
His family members, friends, and neighbours flocked the hospital where they were given the news that he had passed away.
Last year there were a number of similar killings and reprisals which pointed in the direction of gang warfare.
