The Guyana Police Force is seeking the assistance of members of the public in identifying a male who was shot and killed by a licensed firearm holder on Wednesday at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara. The body is presently at the Lyken’s Funeral Home.

Anyone with information that may lead to his identification is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers 225-6411, 226-1369, 227-2128, 226-7065, 226-2603, 911 or the nearest Police Station.

Police Public Relations Office Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan said investigations revealed that about 02:15hrs Wednesday morning, a 38-year-old miner was awakened by a loud noise emanating from the lower flat of his house.

Upon checking, he saw two males, one armed with a handgun, attempting to gain entry into a southern door. The miner raised an alarm and during this process, discharged his licensed firearm in the bandits’ direction, hitting one of them who fell.

The two other robbers, including one armed with a firearm, on seeing what happened bolted from the house and scaled the fence. The matter was reported and ranks of a mobile patrol responded promptly and rushed the shot bandit, who was clad in a three quarter-pants and a black vest tied around his neck, to the Diamond Diagnostic Hospital.

The robber who was shot twice to the neck was pronounced dead on arrival, and was subsequently taken to the Lyken Funeral Home. Another of the men who tried to escape was captured in the vicinity of the crime scene.