TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Terrence Lanferman, of 37 Nelson Street Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara, was last evening gunned down while at his home by a lone gunman who entered his yard, shot him and calmly walked out before racing to a parked motorcycle and fleeing the area.Persons in the area recalled hearing two explosions which sounded like gunshots just before seeing the assailant running from the yard.
Speaking with this newspaper, the dead man’s mother, Ulice Lanferman, said that she was at work when she received a call asking that she visit the Diamond Hospital. The woman, who works at a Guyoil Service Station, raced down to the hospital where she was informed that her son was shot and had died.
According to her, the information received suggested that her son may have been in the house and was reportedly shot through the window or he was sitting in the yard. The young man was at home alone while his fiancé was upstairs at a neighbour when the incident occurred.
Terrence is in the business of installing music systems in minibuses and other vehicles and he did some amount of servicing to motorcycles.
Terrence leaves to mourn his mother, and two siblings, ages 15 and 14. Last evening when this publication visited the Diamond Hospital, many friends and family of the deceased were gathered as others came in one by one as the news of the killing spread
Back at the home in Mocha, resident, lined the streets as they try to come to grips with the untimely death of the young man. The police investigators were also present at the scene conducting their investigations, and they also questioned the fiancé of the dead man.
Persons said that after the shooting they saw a motorcycle without number plate speeding out of the community in a very unusual manner, but were not yet aware that one of the young men in the village was gunned down.

By Leroy Smith