Georgetown : Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Brigadier David Granger has expressed shock at the shooting of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant around midday on today in Agricola village, East Bank Demerara.
Brigadier Granger called on the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leroy Brummell to conduct an immediate investigation into the circumstances that led to the shooting and for the interdiction of the officer responsible. Brigadier Granger reminded the Commissioner of Police that, in all civil incidents, minimum force should be used in dealing with all matters affecting unarmed citizens.
The Party Leader condemned this most recent act of shooting an unarmed youth even as a Commission of Inquiry is being convened in the shooting of other unarmed persons in Linden on the 18th July. He also expressed condolences to Ms. Shonette Grant-Caesar, the mother of the teen who was killed.
Meanwhile the police in a statement this afternoon say, ranks on a mobile police patrol came under fire from a group of men at Caesar Street, Agricola, Georgetown. The ranks returned fire fatally wounding Shaquille Grant, 17 years of Lot 12 BB Eccles, EBD; and injuring Romel Bovell, 20 years of Brutus Street, Agricola, who was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital and is under guard.
A .38 Smith and Wesson revolver was recovered by the police.
Three other men were arrested and are in police custody assisting with the investigations.
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