A MAN identified as Colin Hooper better known as “Gun Youth” was gunned down execution-style on Monday night at Phase One, Mandela Avenue.

Commander of ‘A’ Division Assistant Commissioner Marlon Chapman said the information received is that residents heard rapid gunshots and when they emerged from their houses they saw a man lying in a pool of blood in the alleyway.

He reported that the man was shot about four times to the stomach area by an unknown assailant.

It is uncertain whether the gunman was on foot or was on a bicycle or motor cycle since eyewitnesses refused to say what happened.

Reports indicated the shooter was waiting on the deceased to emerge from a house he had visited prior to the shooting.

Residents told the Guyana Chronicle that they were watching the news on television when they heard rapid gunshots and after the shots ended they came out to see what was going on and saw the body of a man lying face up, sprawled out on the dam.

“Meh ain’t know what time it was but de news was on and we came out after the gunshots and saw the man, he was already dead, we know he by seeing he pass through, we don’t know his name because he is new to the area,” a Rastafarian resident said.

The area where the shooting happened is said to be called “Towler Dam” a squatting area just on Mandela Avenue opposite the East La Penitence Police Station.

Residents said they would see the man passing through but know little of him or where he is from.

The execution-style killing took place sometime between 7pm to 8pm and persons in the area who witnessed the murder were tight-lipped.

One man said, “Is right in front of me it happened but I was not at home and I glad I wasn’t there.”