A man was yesterday beaten to death in Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice after he opened fired on a group of pro-testers, the police say.
Dead is Prettipaul Hargobin, 34, of Waterloo, Bath, West Coast Berbice.
The Guyana Police Force in a statement yesterday said that “Inquiries disclosed that the victim was in his motor vehicle on the Public Road at Bath Settlement when it was observed that he exited the vehicle with a shotgun and discharged one round into the air before discharging three rounds towards a crowd of protestors who were about 60 meters away”.