A GUYANESE, visiting from overseas for a funeral, was shot and wounded Monday night in a robbery attack outside the house where he is a guest.
Alan Jagnarayan, 47, is now a patient at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), nursing three gunshot wounds but his condition is reported to be stable.

Having been to a wake, he had just emerged from a taxi at the gate of his cousin’s home when he was attacked by two men who relieved him of a cellular phone and fled on foot.

Parbattie Hamid, 20, of Lot 22 Callendar Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that she was in bed about 23:00 h when the incident occurred.

She said her cousin, Nafeeza Khan, 33, had gone downstairs to open the gate for Jagnarayan when about nine shots were discharged and one grazed her on a leg.

The woman said the robbery victim was hit by two bullets, on one leg and another on the left wrist, when he tried to resist the bandits.

Bullet holes were evident on the zinc gate at the scene and several warheads were in the surroundings yesterday.

Hamid displayed several bed sheets which she said were discarded after being used to absorb the injured man’s blood following his collapse.

She lamented that, up to when this newspaper spoke with her around midday, Police, who were summoned through several telephone calls, did not respond.

Hamid said the shooting has left them traumatised as Jagnarayan had only arrived in the country two days before to witness the burial of another relative, well-known businessman Ronald Bassoo, 53, of Lot 43 Goedverwagting.

Bassoo died Thursday night when the vehicle in which he was a passenger ditched along Vryheid’s Lust Access Road, also on East Coast Demerara.

The driver and owner of the ill-fated pick-up, GEE 9319, Laleram Seepersaud, 56, a relative of the Bassoos, as well, succumbed to his injuries at the GPH on Monday. (Michel Outridge)