A 28-year-old security guard who shot and killed a suspected bandit in Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara, on Friday night, is still in police custody as investigators try to piece together his story. The dead man has been identified as 29-year-old Zadan Mohammad of Annandale Pump Road, East Coast Demerara. The security guard is attached to Delta Security Service; he resides at Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara. The incident occurred about 21:5hrs in the compound of Sueria Manufacturing, located at Lot 70 Industrial Site, Eccles. Police Headquarters, in a statement, noted that investigations so far revealed that the security officer, who was armed with a shotgun, was making checks around his point of duty when he observed two male intruders in the compound. It is alleged that he subsequently shouted at them during which a round was discharged by one of the suspects.

Police noted that the security officer took cover and discharged a round in the direction of the men; in a bid to escape, one of the intruders fell to the ground. It was later discovered that Mohammad sustained a gunshot injury to the abdomen; he was pronounced dead at the scene by an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) from the Guyana Fire Service and was taken to the Lyken Funeral Home, awaiting a post-mortem. A search conducted in the area and its environs unearthed a 12-gauge spent shell, which was lodged, along with the shotgun and five cartridges.