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Gunmen shoot businessman in head, flee with money-bag
In full view of his wife and eleven-year-old son, gunmen using a CG motorcycle shot 64-year- businessman
Wounded: Fyuse Hoosain
Fyuse Hussain in the head and escaped with $2.5 M after trailing their victim from a city bank to Church Street, Georgetown
The robbers, who fled up Church Street, struck at around 14.15 hrs yesterday when Hussein’s wife had just parked the family’s vehicle near to Guyana Stores Limited.
Hussain, a rice farmer and contractor of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, was rushed to the Woodlands Hospital, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. The bullet that struck Hussain reportedly exited through one of his cheeks and his condition is reportedly listed as critical.
Several vendors and passersby witnessed yesterday’s brazen attack, which occurred about 100 meters from the Police Outpost in Water Street. Only a policewoman was on duty at the time.
Recounting the family’s ordeal, Hussain’s wife told Kaieteur News that she had driven her husband to the Scotiabank’s Carmichael Street branch at around 14.00 hrs to uplift a sum of cash. They then went to Church Street to pay a phone bill. After that, the couple, with their eleven-year-old son, headed to Water Street, with the intention of parking near Fogarty’s General Store. But after finding no place to park, she drove to Church Street and stopped in the vicinity of Guyana Stores Limited.
The woman said she had just finished parking when two men on a motorcycle rode up to their vehicle. One of the men, who had a handgun, went straight to her husband, who was sitting in the
Where Hoosain was shot and robbed .
back seat with his son, and ordered Mr. Hussain to “hand over the f—ing bag.”
But after her husband refused let go of the bag, the robber struck Hussain repeatedly on the head with his gun.
“I was screaming, and people were looking on but nobody came to help us,” she said. The woman recalled hearing a single gunshot but said that she was unaware at the time that her husband was hit.
After shooting Hussain, the robber grabbed the businessman’s bag and escaped with his waiting accomplice. Eyewitnesses recalled seeing the men riding further east up Church Street.
Hussain’s wife said that she then drove to the Woodlands Hospital with her wounded spouse.
Relatives described his condition as “stable.”
Kaieteur News was told that Mr. Hussain was also robbed about three years ago shortly after uplifting cash from another Scotiabank branch.
One close relative appealed to Government to provide more security to businessmen, and lamented the fact that many of these attacks were occurring outside one particular bank.
At least one of the Government-installed Closed Circuit Television Cameras is located near Church and Main Streets, where the gunmen fled. Security cameras at the Bank of Guyana are also likely to have recorded the attack.
The cameras are manned by staffers at the National Intelligence Centre, located in the Castellani House compound and by police ranks at the CID headquarters, Eve Leary.
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