Former magistrate Fazil Azeez shot

Apr 26, 2015 News

Former Magistrate Fazil Azeez is listed in a stable condition at a city hospital after he was shot by a man who mysteriously fled leaving a bag of money behind.
The incident occurred yesterday around 11:00 hours at the Eccles Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara where Azeez is constructing a house.
Azeez was shot one time in his stomach and underwent emergency surgery and up to last night he was resting comfortably.
Kaieteur News understands that the shooter went to the construction site under the pretext of looking for a job.
The contractor in charge of the worksite told this newspaper that he and Azeez had just returned to the site from purchasing materials when the man came up.
He said that he was a bit suspicious of the man judging from his appearance but he did not pay too much emphasis on that especially since he had already told the man that he did not need more employees.
The man then approached Azeez who was about to leave the premises and made the same request.
“De boss (Azeez) call me and ask me if I need any more worker…I tell he ‘no man, I full’, and I walk and go back inside and all I hear something like a squib and I turn back and see he (Azeez) lie down,” the contractor stated.
Another worker stated that he was at the back of the site when he too heard the gunshot.
“I hear, pai! And me suspect is a gunshot fire deh. Next thing i see people running down at de back hey saying, ‘Oh God, watch de man just shoot Mr. Fazil’. When me watch through deh me see a man runnin going up de road so, like he tie up he head,” the employee stated.
Although the man fled without taking anything from Azeez, his employees are convinced that the man was there to commit a robbery but abandoned his mission after Azeez resisted and the workers threatened to confront him.
“Ah de money he come fah yes, it gat to be. After he see is a set of workers and I rush out…but after I see Mr. Azeez lie down pon de ground, i back off,” the contractor told this newspaper.
Azeez was picked up and rushed to the hospital where he was immediately admitted.
The police were summoned and they recovered a spent shell, on which they will be carrying out ballistics tests.
Azeez was a broadcaster at the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation before serving several years as the General Manager.
He then pursued studies in law and later became a magistrate for a few years before returning to private practice.

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