Latest update November 5th, 2024 1:37 AM
Better Hope man gunned down while fleeing from bandits
A 31-year-old Better Hope, East Coast Demerara man was gunned down on Sunday night as he tried to flee from bandits who had attacked him and his girlfriend near the Vryheid’s Lust seawall.
Tyrone Budhu received a fatal bullet to his left side chest just around 21:15 hours as he and his girlfriend were heading home after leaving a Graham Street drinking spot.
Tyrone Budhu
Police, in a press statement, said that after discharging the rounds, the perpetrators took away a cell phone from Mohamed and escaped.
Kaieteur News understands that Budhu left his 51 South Better Hope home which he shared with his now pregnant reputed wife around 18:00 hours on Sunday.
He had arranged to meet another woman, with whom he also shared a relationship, at a Better Hope hideout where they eventually had a few drinks.
About 21:00 hours, Budhu and the woman left the bar and were walking along the seawall when they were confronted by two men on bicycles.
The woman told investigators that the men passed them but stopped behind them and threw down their bicycles.
She said that the men ordered them to lie on the ground but they were so surprised by the order that it took them a while to comply.
The men repeated the order this time using expletives while one of them pulled out a gun from his waist and discharged a round into the air.
The woman said that it was at this point that Budhu decided to run away and one of the bandits fired two shots in his direction.
The woman did not know that Budhu was hit, but she complied with the bandits’ order and eventually surrendered her cellular phone.
She said that when the men left, she got up and walked towards where Budhu had fled and she was horrified when she saw him lying panting for breath and his clothes soaked with blood.
The woman raised an alarm and the police were summoned.
The badly injured Budhu was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital, where, according to a police source, he died about 10 minutes after his arrival.
Police have not yet arrested anyone.
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