–even with one-year bond still in effect

UP to press time last evening, investigators in the Police ‘G’ Division, Essequibo, were hunting for 36-year-ld Kumar Bissoon, a rice farmer who allegedly attempted to murder his reputed wife, 24-year-old Asha Singh, with whom he has two children.Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle stated that the man early yesterday morning, just after 7:00am, visited the home of his reputed wife’s mother to speak to her.

He then stood on the roadway calling out for Singh, who responded and was on her way out of the yard to meet him. And as the woman approached, he allegedly whipped out a firearm and discharged four rounds in her direction.
A police source who spoke with this publication said that one of the four shots grazed the woman’s head, and she was treated at the Regional Hospital and sent away. The police immediately went in search of the man, who residents indicated had fled into the backdam.
Meanwhile, a senior police officer said yesterday that a check of police records revealed that the man is not known to be a licensed firearm holder.
Another source said that once captured, the man will be facing an attempted murder charge and being in possession of a firearm without being the holder of a license.
Speaking with this publication yesterday afternoon, the injured woman’s father, Vibert Singh, said that his daughter and the man separated earlier this year after she was subjected to constant abuse from him.
The father said further that up to yesterday when the man showed up and shot the woman, he was still on a one-year bond imposed by a magistrate. He told the Chronicle that when the matter was called in court a few weeks ago the magistrate wanted to jail the man but he approached the family and asked them for mercy.
Singh said that Asha Singh then decided to beg the magistrate not to send the man to jail and the family decided that she would not be going back to the house because of the abuse she was subjected to. The man was then placed on the one-year bond that was still in effect when he visited the house yesterday.
When Bissoon visited the home of Singh’s mother yesterday, where she is staying at present, he walked into the yard and demanded that Singh get the eldest of their two children ready for school since he wanted to take her to school.
The man then went back to his vehicle and after waiting a while and not seeing the child he then asked what was happening and the woman then reportedly informed him that the child would not be going to school.
The man then got into a rage and began firing shots at the woman. After the first bullet grazed her she and her mother rushed at the man and attempted to wrestle the firearm from him but they were unsuccessful.
The women then rushed to the back of the house and locked themselves in the kitchen while calling for help even as neighbours began calling the police. As the women were locked in the kitchen, the man reportedly moved to the back of the yard and was trying to get to them but the firearm seemed to have malfunctioned at the time.
As persons began gathering at the scene, he crossed a canal while firing shots before making good his escape.

(By Leroy Smith)