POLICE reported that they had a confrontation, yesterday, with a group of men at Caesar Street, Agricola, Greater Georgetown, in which a party of policemen returned gunfire and shot and killed Shaquille Grant and shot and injured Romel Bovell, who is a patient under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Police said at about 12:10hrs yesterday, ranks on a mobile police patrol came under fire from a group of men at Caesar Street, Agricola.
The ranks returned fire, fatally wounding Shaquille Grant, 17, of 12 BB Eccles, East Bank Demerara, and wounded Romel Bovell, 20, of Brutus Street, Agricola, who was admitted to the GPH.
Police added that a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver was recovered by the police and three other men were arrested and are in police custody assisting with investigations.
Relatives of 17-year-old Grant said that he was not part of any gang and would have celebrated his 18th birthday today.