The Police say they are investigating the shooting death by a cop of Gordon Sancho, a 26-year-old unemployed man from the Goedverwagting squatting area, East Coast Demerara, which occurred at about 00:30 hrs yesterday morning at ‘C’ Field Cummings Lodge.
In a release, the police said that enquiries disclosed that Ranks from the Alberttown Police Station were on mobile patrol duty in a Police vehicle when they responded to a report about the discharging of a loaded firearm with intent. The report was made by a 15-year-old student and her 34-year-old mother, a security guard employed at a private security service.
The ranks proceeded to Section ‘C’ Field, Cummings Lodge, in the company of the persons who made the report, where Sancho was pointed out to them.