–two victims in serious but stable condition

THE police on Monday confirmed that three men have been arrested and are cooperating with officials as the investigation into the murder of 58-year-old Fazal Shaheed continues.
Shaheed was killed early Sunday morning, when two masked men stormed his mother’s home at 194 East LaPenitence, Georgetown as family members were making the final preparations for their father’s one-year memorial service.
He was at the time in the yard, around 00:40hrs, helping to wash up some kitchen utensils when the men invaded the home where his two brothers, sisters and mother were at the time.
His brothers, Talin, 50, of Toronto, Canada and Shalim, 53, of the United States were both shot about their bodies and said to be in serious but stable conditions at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

A third brother, Raymond, who lives in Subryanville, told the Guyana Chronicle on Sunday that for most of the day on Saturday, after uplifting some barrels that were shipped from overseas, family members were cooking sweet meats for the event and “making joke.”
He explained that a number of his siblings, including the injured two, had come in from the US and Canada to celebrate the “year work” for their father. He told the Guyana Chronicle that around 00:30hrs on Sunday, he left his siblings and other family members and went home, but soon after reaching home, his phone rang.
“Raymond come now! They are killing us!” the visibly shaken man quoted his sister as shouting over the phone.
He said he “broke all the traffic rules” to get to his family’s home, but by the time he got there, everyone had already left for the police station and subsequently the GPHC.
“When I got there,” Raymond said, “I forced my way into the room. And when I got in, I saw Fazal with something in his mouth; he was too gruesome to recognise.”
Fazal, he said, had taken four bullets, one of which pierced his heart. “And I am sure that is the one that took him,” Raymond said.
He said he later moved on to his other brother, Talim, who was shot to his shoulder. Raymond said that though Talim was conscious, it was obvious that he was in tremendous pain. He was later transferred to the medical ward.

He, however, said he is concerned about this particular brother, because he had previously had triple bypass surgery.
On another bed, he said, lay his other brother, Shalim, who was shot three times about his body, and who the doctor said was in a critical condition.
He said he was later informed by the doctor that his brother would have to undergo emergency surgery to repair his small intestine, which was ruptured during the shooting.