Wanted’ man dies in shoot-out with police
Bystander killed in crossfire
Killed by police in a shootout in Georgetown. Was wanted.
Police shot a wanted man at Paradise on the East Coast Demerara yesterday and a bystander was fatally struck by a stray bullet while mending his bicycle tyre.
Dead are Melroy Goodman called ‘Budhai’, 26, whom the police say was wanted for four murders and several robberies; and Ramdyal Dasai, 49, a Guysuco employee, of 400 Lincoln Street, Enterprise. A policeman was also shot in the right upper arm and was rushed to a city hospital.
A statement coming out of the Police Public Relations Office said yesterday that Goodman, who lived at Bare Root, also on the East Coast Demerara, “was fatally shot after he opened fire on a police mobile patrol, wounding a policeman in the process.”
