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Bystander shot in gas station row
A bystander sustained a gunshot wound to his hand Sunday night when another man opened fire indiscriminately in the vicinity of a popular gas station located on the East Coast of Demerara.
The victim has been identified as Shanis Persaud. He was treated at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital and sent away.
The Guyana Police Force in a statement said that ranks are making stringent efforts to apprehend a male suspect, who indiscriminately discharged several rounds from a handgun.
Enquires disclosed that a group of persons were in the vicinity of the gas station imbibing when an argument between the suspect and another male erupted.
The argument escalated into a scuffle, during which the suspect whipped out a firearm and discharged several rounds, one of which struck Persaud, a bystander, to his hand.
The suspect made good his escape in a motor car. Investigators have retrieved five spent shells from the scene.
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