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Guyanese gunned down in Cayenne
Relatives of a Guyanese man are preparing to travel to French Guiana to recover his body after he was shot dead in Cayenne on Monday night.
Dead is 24-year-old Troy James, of Norton Street, Lodge.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that James, who according to his mother, Rosanne Garraway, was a construction worker, was killed in a shooting incident with other persons.
The dead man’s distraught mother, Rosanne Garraway
Another man is believed to be critically wounded, but James’s relatives could not confirm this.
“When we get to Cayenne we will get the details,” said the dead man’s uncle, Patrick King.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, King said that he received a telephone call informing him that James was shot in French Guiana.
“Just a while ago I confirmed it at the French embassy that there was a shootout in Cayenne and that he was fatally wounded,” King told reporters.
Garraway told this newspaper that when she got the message she fainted.
“Somebody called me on the phone and told me that Troy was just shot and killed. I say ‘you sure? You sure, sure he dead?’ The girl told me that she was standing over his body. She say, ‘If you see how he lie down on the ground’,” Garraway explained.
According to Garraway, James, who has been residing in French Guiana for the past two years, last visited Guyana two months ago.
She said that she was never in favour of her son moving to the French-speaking territory.
“I used to tell him don’t go. I didn’t want him to go there. I told him I don’t like there for him,” the woman said.
There are reports that James was involved in an argument with one of his older siblings.
He was described as a loving person by his mother.
Yesterday, scores of relatives and friends converged at the dead man’s Norton Street, Lodge home where a black flag was seen flying at the front of the house.
James’s uncle said that as soon as the French Consulate issues relatives with visas they will be traveling to Cayenne to bring the body back to Guyana for burial.
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