Masked gunmen walked into an Eccles, East Bank Demerara bar just before midnight yesterday and riddled a businessman with bullets.
Police officials this morning identified the dead man as Leonard Mahadeo of Diamond New Scheme, EBD.
Reports are that Mahadeo was enjoying a Friday night lime at Soca Paradise bar located at Old Road Eccles when he came under fire from two masked men both armed with guns.
The gunmen later fled in a car.
The body was earlier this morning taken to the Lyken’s Funeral home.
Mahadeo had been the victim of another bar attack by a gunman in 2008.
Describing him then as a cambio dealer, police said that on February 9, 2008 Mahadeo, of Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara was attacked by an armed man at Barr Street and Stanley Place, Kitty around 9.40 pm. His relatives had declined to comment on the incident.
According to the police statement then, Mahadeo was sitting in his car when the gunman discharged several rounds at him and escaped.
He was hit in the left side of his chest, right shoulder and left knee and was taken to the hospital. The police recovered six spent shells and four warheads at the scene.
