Anthony Haynes was shot dead at Grahams Hall, East Coast Demerara on December 31st and a two-month-old baby was reportedly injured at the same time, sources say.
The Guyana Police Force is yet to provide details surrounding the incident.
The police today issued the following statement on this case:
𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟏𝟗-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭
— 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐦’𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐄𝐂𝐃
Police are continuing their investigations into the alleged murder of Anthony Haynes called ‘One Natty’, a 29-year-old of Lot 10 Graham’s Hall, East Coast Demerara, which occurred at around 20:00 hrs on Sunday night at the mentioned address. Investigators are looking for a 19-year-old murder suspect.
Inquiries disclosed that Haynes resided at Graham’s Hall with his reputed wife Ronette Abrams, a 26-year-old Customer Service Representative, and their two-month-old baby girl.
According to Abrams, on the date mentioned, she was at home in the kitchen while Haynes was in the living room holding their baby and conversing with the 19-year-old suspect, who was at their house at the time.
A short while after, Abrams said she heard Haynes saying: “Stop playing with the gun”, then a loud explosion that sounded like a gunshot coming from the living room, and the baby crying. On checking, she saw her husband lying motionless in a chair with a wound to his left side chest, holding their baby. The 19-year-old suspect was standing over him with a handgun in his hand.
The suspect then took the deceased out of the house onto the road at Crown Dam Industry, a few meters away from the home, where he covered him with a sheet and left him, after which he made good his escape.
The body of the deceased was examined, and what appeared to be a gunshot wound was observed to his left side chest. One live .38 round of ammunition was found in the living room of the house.
The deceased along with the two-month-old baby were escorted to the GPHC, where he was pronounced dead by a doctor on duty, while the baby received treatment for a wound to her right inner shoulder.