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Manu Durant killed in shootout at strip club
The popular Baroombar Strip Club on North Road was the scene of an early morning shootout yesterday, which resulted in the death of 40-year-old Manu Durant.
Manu Durant
Durant, a popular figure who was well known to law enforcement authorities, succumbed at the Balwant Singh Hospital, a few hours after another man pumped two bullets into his chest, following a heated argument inside the bar.
The incident occurred around 04:30 hours, just when the bar was about to be closed for business.
Police in a press statement said that Durant, of Atlantic Ville, East Coast Demerara, was involved in an argument with another man, during which he was shot to his chest.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
While police had detained a few persons shortly after the shooting, they are looking for another man who is only known to them as ‘Lion’.
Details of the incident were initially sketchy, as persons associated with the bar remained tightlipped. However a police source told this newspaper that Durant became annoyed after his alleged killer told him that the music had to be turned off.
According to the source, an upset Durant, who had a glass with liquor in his hand, approached the man and began arguing with him.
The brief exchange of words escalated and led to Durant whipping out a gun from his waist and discharging a round which narrowly missed the man with whom he was arguing.
He did not cater for the man having a gun too.
A few seconds later, the man pulled out a gun and aimed it at Durant’s chest and squeezed the trigger several times, sending the bullets into Durant’s body. The man then calmly walked out of the bar and disappeared, while Durant lay motionless on the floor.
Durant, who was at one time linked to the infamous phantom squad, is no stranger to violence, having cheated death a few times before.
In 2002, he narrowly escaped a vicious attack by gunmen in his home village of Buxton, when he was forced to run and leave his car behind with a friend inside. The car was set on fire after the gunmen summarily executed his friend.
Then in February 2008, police issued a wanted bulletin for Durant, in connection with the disappearance of Tenisha Morgan, the girlfriend of the late notorious Buxton gang leader Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins.
Durant subsequently turned himself in with his lawyer but was later set free.
In 2009, Durant was standing with friends outside the Wild Berry Night Club in Kitty, when two men on a motorcycle rode up to him and one of them shot him behind the right ear from close range.
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