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Home intruder shot dead by businessman

Apr 03, 2013 News

 

 

A housebreaker was fatally shot early yesterday morning – just past midnight – after he attacked a businessman who caught him red-handed in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo residence.
According to a police statement on the matter, 25-year-old James Williams was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital after being shot by a licensed firearm holder, Andrew Forrester.
This publication was told that Forrester was out and when he returned home at about 00:25 hrs, he found Williams in his premises. According to the police statement, Williams attacked Forrester with a claw bar and Forrester discharged several rounds from his revolver. Williams was struck in the abdomen.
It was stressed by residents that the incident has added to a worrying number of ‘break and enter’ episodes which have occurred in the community over the past two weeks.
There are reports that close to sixteen households have suffered losses at the hands of a group which has been wreaking havoc in the Tuschen Housing Scheme. When Kaieteur News visited the area yesterday several residents came out to voice their concern, claiming that the police seem to be turning a blind eye to the situation.
One female resident, Cheryl Prince, told this publication that her home was targeted last Thursday while she and her family were asleep.
Prince said that she was in bed at around 03:30 hours and saw someone in her room, but paid no mind as she thought it was one of her sons.
“The light in my room does normally be off and my sons does come in the room at anytime to charge their phone, so when I see the person I just stay on the bed and said nothing… but then something fell and my big son jump up after he saw one of the boys in the house.”
According to Prince, her son then raised an alarm which caused herself and the others in the home to wake up.
By that time the two intruders began grabbing whatever valuables they could before fleeing. Prince said a laptop computer, mobile phones and a quantity of cash were stolen.
The matter was reported and two young men were apprehended. Yesterday the duo appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court where they were charged and placed on $80,000 bail each.
And another home was broken into some two weeks ago, with the perpetrators making off with a large quantity of cash, a licensed firearm and a flat screen television set. During that burglary the occupants of the home were all fast asleep and the intruders made their way in through a kitchen window. To date there has been no arrest in that incident.
In the meantime, residents are calling for an increased police presence, as they insist these crimes are being committed by persons living in the area.
“The things these persons targeting things like television, computers and other electrical appliances… once they moving with these things people can see them. They got to be living in this area and it got to be that they selling these things fast,” one resident opined.
Another resident stated that there needs to be more collaboration between the Community Policing Group and the police.
Some residents feel that the police are not carrying out thorough investigations since they are being fed with information but very little results are seen.
One source said only recently two young men were handed over to the police with what is believed to have been a quantity of stolen cellular phones, however to date there has been no feedback from the police about that matter.
Residents say all they continue to hear from the police is “investigations are ongoing” while more residents of the community continue to suffer losses on a daily basis.

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