Police Sergeant Harry Kooseram

Harry Kooseram

Assailant fired six bullets into his body

The police have launched an investigation into circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of another member of the Guyana Police Force by an unknown assailant, in the latest in a series of shooting incidents that has gripped the lower East Coast Demerara.

Dead is 37-year-old, Detective Sergeant. Harry Kooseram, called ‘Rudy’ of 149 First Street, Bladen Hall, ECD, who, according to a police press release was shot six times yesterday morning as he rode to work at the nearby Vigilance Police Station.

According to the release, Kooseram was on his way to work a short distance away from his home when a man approached him, pulled out a gun which was wrapped in paper and fired six shots two of which hit him in the chest, another three in his abdomen and one in his side.