TWENTY-seven-year-old Tyron Duesbury was killed early Monday morning after being struck by a stray bullet as he, his wife and friends were looking for a place to continue partying after leaving an Albouystown Club.

Police sources told the Guyana Chronicle that Duesbury and his wife, a gold miner and another woman were in a car headed up the East Bank, when, as they were about to pass Brutus Street, Agricola, they saw a crowd of more than three dozen persons and decided to turn back to see what all the commotion was about.

According to one source, it was the gold miner, who was the designated driver at the time, that decided they should turn back, and they were in the process of doing so when they heard what sounded like a series of rapid explosions.

Shortly thereafter, the source said, Duesbury and his friends came to realise that the car’s rear windscreen was shattered, and he told them he’d been shot and began leaning forward, bleeding from his mouth.
He was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival by the doctors on duty.
A senior police source told the Guyana Chronicle that initial investigations have revealed that there was an altercation of sorts in the area at the time the explosions were heard, and that a ‘warhead’ was found in the vehicle in which Duesbury and his friends were travelling, but unfortunately, they were unable to find any spent shells where the crowd was assembled.

As the probe into the matter continues, Duesbury’s death has since been classified as murder. (Leroy Smith)