A businessman is now dead after he and another man came under heavy gunfire tonight along Regent Street, in Georgetown.
The shooting occurred around 10.20 pm in front of Shamdas Kirpalani.
Guyana Police Force spokesman Stan Gouveia identified the deceased as Euclide Da Silva, 51, of 23 Hadfield Street. Da Silva and the other man, who was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment, were both in a vehicle, a black Tacoma, when they came under fire.
Police are currently at the crime scene.
This story is developing.
