A 32-year-old construction worker of Little Diamond Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, Jermaine Haynes, is now nursing a wound to the leg after he was shot during a scuffle with police, who were responding to reports of alleged domestic violence.
According to information from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the police who were involved in the incident, were dispatched in response to a report of assault by the man’s 33-year-old wife of the aforementioned address.

Relative to the report, which was forwarded to Regional Division 4’B’ Operations Room, two police constables armed with 9mm pistols, were dispatched to the area.
“Upon arrival in the area, contact was made with the 33-year-old woman who was at the time seeking refuge from her husband at a neighbour’s residence. She related to the ranks that the suspect dealt her a slap, broke a table in the house, and threatened to kill her, which caused her to run out of the house,” the police said.

The two ranks, according to the GPF, subsequently went over to the victim’s residence, where the enraged suspect, Haynes, exited the house and attacked the ranks.

“A scuffle ensued, and the suspect, in the process, held on to the firearm of one of the ranks and managed to disarm him. On seeing this, the other rank drew his service pistol and discharged two rounds at the suspect, hitting him on the lower right leg,” the police said.
The suspect was subdued, arrested, and escorted to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he received medical attention under police guard. Investigation into the incident is ongoing.