…Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris was involved in a court matter pertaining to her home
POLICE are investigating the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, 72, of Robb Street, Bourda, Georgetown, which occurred at her home about 19:45hrs on Thursday.
Investigations revealed that two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, went to the victim’s home and enquired for her; and as she came out of her bedroom, she was shot several times.The men then escaped in a waiting motor car.
Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to the brother of the deceased, Fitzroy Fiedtkou, 74, she was murdered as he was sitting on her steps, while their uncle was lying on the sofa in the living room.
The elderly man told the Guyana Chronicle that they were at his sister’s home when two young men came up the stairs and asked for “Aunty”; as she came out of her bedroom, on of the gunmen discharged six shots at her, at point blank range, and fled.
She collapsed on the nearby sofa where her uncle was lying, bleeding profusely.
Her sibling said he was standing right behind the two men when she was shot and killed.
Fitzroy Fiedtkou said, “I was right there when they murdered my sister; and after they killed her I grabbed the arm of one of the youths but he cuffed me in the chest, and I collapsed.”
Holding back tears, Fitzroy Fiedtkou said that his sibling was shot six times, thrice in the back, once under the arm, and twice in the stomach.
He stated that a woman had taken his sister to court for the property and the case was not over, but it was going in his sister’s favour.
The details he could not reveal, but he related that a woman had threatened his sister after she and her son were asked to leave the home.
He added that he had advised the woman to leave her home, but she opted to remain there until the case was concluded.

Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris is the mother of two children, both of whom reside overseas.
Relatives yesterday said that the murdered woman was a busy-body and an avid Christian.
Yesterday morning a group of relatives and friends had gathered at her home to discuss the incident but were clueless as to why she was murdered in such a brutal manner.
Bloodstains were evident yesterday when the Guyana Chronicle visited the home of the deceased. There was dried blood on the sofa, the floor of the living room and the steps.