Suspected burglar fatally shot while fleeing cops

A suspected burglar was early yesterday morning fatally shot while fleeing from police a street away from his own home, at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara,.

Dead is Kawal Singh, called ‘Lil Bai’ or ‘Gazette’, 24, of Lot 6 Better Hope North, who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), while receiving treatment for his gunshot wounds.

The shooting occurred at around 2am yesterday, when police ranks responded to a report of burglary at a house in