The assistant Chief Security Officer of the International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) was gunned down in the vicinity of its Camp Street, Georgetown location early this morning.
Sidwell Collins, 32, called ‘Gold teeth’ was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) shortly after 1 am and was pronounced dead on arrival. Reports are that he was shot twice by a lone gunman.
Although relatives can’t say who would want Collins dead they believe that whoever it is paid someone to murder him.
“Whoever de want he dead,” a relative told Stabroek News outside the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) earlier today, “send that gunman to kill he…is pay they pay somebody and I sure is not nuff (plenty) money they pay either.”
Collins was required to make visits to IPA locations as part of his job. His reputed wife, Keisha Vandoinan, said she last saw him alive at about 7.40 last night.
Collins, she recalled, went home, took a bath and said he was going back out to check on IPA’s Camp Street, Georgetown location. Collins said he’d be back in an hour. Vandoinan was not alarmed when he failed to return in the said time because it was his habit to get tied up in work.
Meanwhile, a shift report written by a guard on duty at the time Collins was murdered said that he stopped in at the IPA Camp Street location and then left. Collins was seen walking south along Camp Street and a few minutes later three gunshots were heard. Collins sustained two gunshot wounds.
Relatives, just after they had identified the man’s body at the hospital morgue, said that despite the dangerous nature of Collins’ job, he was not allowed to carry a firearm and walked on foot around the city at night to check on the various IPA locations. It would’ve been easy for someone to trail Collins, they said, and then wait for the opportune moment to attack.
On Saturday night, just after 9.30 pm, West Demerara businessman Terry Bacchus was murdered. He was shot once by a gunman who then escaped with another accomplice.
