POLICE report that at about 22:30 hrs on Friday, January 24, 2014, Special Constable 14127 Quincy Wright, called Dexter, of the Mounted Branch and of Zeskendren, Mahaicony, East Coast of Demerara, was involved in a heated argument with a man at the home of a female at Guyhoc Park, Georgetown, when he was shot to the left side of his chest. He was later pronounced dead on arrival at the GPHC.His assailant, who escaped, is also a suspect in a matter that occurred on January 23, 2014, at North Sophia, wherein a firearm was taken away from a security guard attached to a private security service.
Investigations are in progress.

“Gary” (only name given) of Lot 84 Guyhoc Park, Georgetown, said he was watching television in the upper flat of the building, at about 22:30 hrs, when he heard a loud explosion and he ran downstairs to see what was happening. He said he saw the mortally wounded cop lying in the yard, barely breathing because he was panting for breath.

The grievously injured lawman had been shot; and after some time, Gary and others managed to get a taxi by which they rushed the lawman to the GPHC, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Gary said he had seen the young lawman visiting his sister-in-law alive when he went into the yard for a bath earlier that night.

Gary told this publication that he feels very disturbed about the turn of events, and he regretted what had happened to the young cop; but he had not been aware there was anything going on in the yard until the incident.

An eyewitness to the shooting, Ashanti Sankar, who was grazed by the bullet that killed Wright, said she barely managed to escape with her life; and she was in a state of shock yesterday when this newspaper visited the scene.

She said that it all started when a young man (the gunman) came to the home to visit a female occupant (named) and he started to say things to the policeman, who was already in a conversation with another young female occupant of the house.

Sankar explained that among the things the shooter said was: “Is problem you want with me?” after he was asked why he was peeping in Wright’s face. And despite attempts to pacify him, the gunman appeared to be very agitated by the question he had been asked. After some more exchange of words, he whipped out a gun from his waist and shot Wright.

At that time, Sankar said, she was standing between the two men trying to make peace, and she barely shifted herself out of the way when she saw the gun, or she would also have been shot on Friday night.

She said the shooting happened when Wright went into his pocket to retrieve his phone, which was ringing at the time. She said she heard the gun go off before feeling a burning sensation on her arm; and she managed to hide by the fence and dial 911 for help.

Sankar noted that the gunman was looking for her as he stood over the cop whom he had shot, but he did not see her in the darkness; so he left the scene of the shooting and she placed a call to her children’s father, who is a policeman.

She said that after Wright had been taken to hospital, police came and took statements from her and another female.

Up to press time, the gunman had not been apprehended by the police.
Written By Michel Outridge