–Family disputes KN’s robbery claims

TWENTY-six-year-old Dexter Lindo of 28 Shell Road Kitty, Georgetown died yesterday at the Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital while receiving medical treatment for a gunshot wound he sustained on Saturday afternoon in Alberttown, Georgetown.

The Guyana Chronicle received several reports in relation to this incident from persons in Albuoystown and from police sources, but has taken the position of awaiting substantiation before publication.

Persons in Alberttown reportedly saw a white car pulling up at a shop last Saturday, and a man exited that car. Shortly thereafter, another car reportedly pulled up, and an occupant of this second vehicle opened fire on the man who had exited the first arrived car. The man who had come under fire was later identified as Dexter Lindo.

It was also reported that the shooting had its genesis in a robbery, and that the man who had shot Lindo is a licensed firearm holder who was responding to a robbery report received from his female companion.

The Guyana Chronicle also learnt on Sunday that the woman who claimed to have been robbed by Dexter Lindo and his associates had reportedly been robbed after leaving a city bank last week, and she had related the matter to her male companion, a well-known individual, while naming the person who had robbed her.

Sources say that Dexter Lindo had gone to the woman’s establishment to threaten her about implicating him in her alleged robbery, and she reported that to her male companion, who sent his associates after the now dead man and his associates.

The late Dexter Lindo’s father yesterday contended that his son had operated a car rental business, had been involved in home construction, and had not been a criminal. He said he had received news of his son’s fate whilst he was travelling on the Linden Highway; and he was reliably informed that the man connected to the woman who had allegedly been robbed had had a problem with one of the men with whom his son and his associates had been liming. That man’s associates had reportedly trailed the car driven by Dexter, and as Dexter exited the vehicle at a shop in Alberttown, that man’s associates had opened fire on him under pretext that he had committed a robbery.

Lindo’s father also said he had been told that when word had reached the robbed woman’s male connection following his son’s shooting, the man had allegedly questioned why Dexter Lindo had been shot, seeing he had not been the intended target.

Reports suggest that Saturday’s trigger man was not licensed to carry a firearm, but the firearm which was recovered was licensed to someone else; and that was the same firearm which persons and the police claimed had been used by the now dead man to commit a robbery.

The police could not, up to late yesterday, confirm whether the prints lifted from the gun matched those of the now dead Dexter Lindo.