Police are investigating the murder of a shopkeeper at Eteringbang Landing, Cuyuni River yesterday afternoon.
Dead is Chinese national, Yang Lisong. His wife Wen Shuping was also injured in the attack by three bandits. Investigations have so far revealed that Lisong operated a supermarket at Eteringbang Landing. He had arrived here from Guizhou in China.
Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum yesterday confirmed to Stabroek News that two Venezuelans and one Guyanese are believed to have committed the act. The three suspects were arrested yesterday and are in police custody assisting with investigation.
According to reports, at about 2 pm yesterday, Sergeant Schultz, the S/O in charge of Eteringbang police station received a phone call from a ‘Vanlange’, the owner of the building that houses the supermarket, who reported to him that there was an “incident” occurring at the building.
Consequently, ranks at Eteringbang Landing responded, and on their arrival at the supermarket found the entrance locked. Upon venturing to the back, they found Pharrell Adelph, a 19-year-old, attempting to exit the building. He was promptly arrested.
When further checks were made by the police inside the supermarket, the ranks found the deceased in one of the rooms lying against a wall, clad in a grey jersey and dark grey trousers. A wound about 13 cm in length was observed to his neck, while his reputed wife was found alive in another room with two small lacerations to her right jaw.
A Chinese’s national residing there, Xu Yuanxi, told Stabroek News yesterday that he was not in the supermarket at the time of the incident but as of yesterday he learnt that the incident occurred at about 1:30 pm and the perpetrators took an undisclosed amount of cash.
In recent months Eteringbang has seen an upsurge in criminal activity, much of it believed to be associated with the `Sindicatos’ from nearby Venezuela. The area across the Cuyunu River has also seen heightened activity by Venezuelan military personnel.
For much of last year, Eteringbang could only be accessed by boat as the airstrip in the community had not been completed.
