THE gunman who carried out what is considered a hit on Patricia ‘Patsy’ Sanasie on Monday night outside her Atlantic Gardens, ECD home had evidently intended that she should not remain alive, considering where on the body she had been shot.

Crime Chief Leslie James confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that Sanasie had been shot to the neck, chest and stomach. The Crime Chief said the former businesswoman, wife of a businessman who had accused her of ordering a hit on him last year February, received two gunshot wounds to the chest and one each to her neck and stomach.

The police are looking to have answers, even as fingers are already being pointed at a very close relative of the deceased.
The Guyana Chronicle has been told that the police are focusing their attention on the many surveillance cameras mounted on the homes of persons who reside in the area.

One police source indicated that the police would have already reviewed footage of a few of those cameras, but have failed to pick up anything of substantial value up to press time.

One of the challenges that the police continues to experience is cases where persons just mount surveillance cameras on their buildings with no provision to store recorded footage, and that was again discovered yesterday during checks of several mounted cameras in the area.

The police are also focusing on the cameras which are mounted on the buildings in close proximity to the only entrance into the Atlantic Gardens community, home to many middle and upper class citizens. When this newspaper revisited the location yesterday morning, persons were unable to describe what really happened prior to the shooting, and from which part of the community the vehicle that the gunman exited really came.

This publication was told that the hitman might have followed the woman or may have been waiting at a location in Atlantic Gardens in anticipation of her arrival home from church on Monday night.

Patricia Sanasie was gunned down in the presence of one of her daughters after she exited her vehicle to open her gate seconds after pulling up there.

The blood which flowed from the woman’s wounds was yesterday still evident on the parapet in front of her home. The dried blood led from the spot where she had fallen into the drain nearby.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the husband of the dead woman, who also operates an auto sales business, is presently out of the country. There have been rumours that the woman’s execution might have been ordered by that man in retaliation for the claims he made that she had last year placed a hit on him that failed.

The woman had strenuously denied claims that she had placed a hit on her husband, and her brother who was also accused of this deed had also denied involvement. New rumours circulating that her husband had ordered the hit on her have not been substantiated, but police investigations are ongoing.

Social media was abuzz with activity yesterday calling for the police to get the location where the man presently is and trace every single call and/or other communication which he may have had with persons in Guyana since his departure.