Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Businessman shot in head out of hospital
Shot in the head by robbers last Friday, businessman Fyuse Hussain appears to be making a full
Fyuse Hussain
recovery and has been discharged from hospital.
Relatives said that 64-year-old Hussain, who was being treated at the Woodlands Hospital, was allowed to go home on Monday. However, a relative stressed that he is still not well enough to accommodate visitors.
The bullet that struck Hussain reportedly exited through one of his cheeks.
The Good Hope, East Coast Demerara rice farmer and contractor was shot in the head at around 14.15hrs last Friday by bandits on a CG motorcycle, who appeared to have trailed him from a City bank to Church Street, Georgetown. The attack occurred in full view of his wife, 11-year-old son and passersby, with the bandits fleeing with $2.5M.
Hussain’s wife said she had driven her husband to Scotiabank’s Carmichael Street branch at around 14.00hrs to uplift a sum of cash. They then went to Church Street to pay a phone bill. After that, the couple, with their 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.
She had just parked 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 back seat with his son and ordered Mr. Hussain to hand over his money-bag.
After her husband refused to comply, the robber struck Hussain repeatedly on the head with his gun. She said despite her screams, no one came to her assistance.
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 snatched his victim’s bag and escaped with his accomplice east on Church Street.
Hussain’s wife took her wounded husband to the Woodlands Hospital.
Mr. Hussain was also robbed about three years ago shortly after uplifting cash from another Scotiabank branch. The robbery last week occurred about 100 meters from the Police Outpost in Water Street. Only a policewoman was on duty at the time. Kaieteur News was unable to ascertain whether anyone has been apprehended.
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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