POLICE have not yet made an arrest for the execution style murder of Brian Chung, last Thursday night.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that the investigation is active but they have been unable to identify the killer(s) despite having questioned several persons. Chung, 41, of Lot 79 Da Silva Street, Newtown, Georgetown, was shot and killed, at his residence, by one of two men who fled the scene on a CG motorcycle. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
His sister, Joanne Chung told the Guyana Chronicle she was not at the house when the killing happened but was informed by telephone and, when she arrived home, she saw her brother lying under the building panting for breath.
“I touched and asked him what happened but he was barely alive and could not say who did the shooting,” the woman said.
He lived in the lower flat of the two-storey wooden building and sold Rastafarian (Ital) food while his sister and niece occupied upstairs.
Neighbours did not see the shooters enter the premises but, after hearing the gunfire, saw the men leaving hurriedly on the motorbike that had been parked on the road nearby.
The fatal bullet was fired at Chung from close range after an exchange of words with his assailants and he died from a single wound which exited at the back of his head.
It is also unclear what kind of weapon was used as the Police did retrieve the spent shell.
Chung, previously involved in several cases of drugs possession and trafficking, was chatting with a friend when the duo confronted him and one of them discharged the bullet that caused him to be pronounced dead on arrival at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).