Angoy’s Avenue resident shot dead up Canje River

Aug 06, 2016 News

An Angoy’s Avenue resident who traversed between his residence and various points up the Canje River, was reportedly shot dead Thursday evening at Cartina’s Burg, some 75 miles up the Canje River.
Dead is Andel Daniels, 19, of Caracas High Dam, West Canje Berbice.
Reports are that the teen would frequent between his home and the Canje River where his relatives originates from. He and others would reportedly do farming, at Catina’s Burg some two miles from Ikura and a further 20 miles from Bara Cara.
According to the teen’s grandfather, Lowell Amsterdam, who resides at Bara Cara, the family is not sure what happened. He was at the High Dam residence with other family members.
Amsterdam said that they received a call sometime around 21:30 hours that Andel was shot and seriously injured and that he was being transported to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
They journeyed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where they waited. He reportedly died on his way to the hospital. Reports are sketchy. However it was reported that the lad and others were hunting when he got shot. It was also reported that he was descending some stairs which collapsed. Daniels who was carrying a gun at the time was shot when the gun went off.
After he got shot he was placed on a canoe and ferried to Ikura. From there he was taken to the medical center at Bara Cara and then to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
The matter was reported to the Central Police Station and a team of officers was dispatched immediately to conduct investigations.
Adel’s mother, Gould Marcell Amsterdam, called ‘Massa’, 37, who was seven months pregnant at the time, went missing since August 2010.
The woman, who was a neighbourhood police rank at the time and a mother of three, was reported missing after she left to go and visit the father of one of her children, who lived next door.
The lad leaves to mourn two brothers and one sister. He was the eldest.
The gun has not been recovered.
Investigations are ongoing.

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