A 42-year-old porkknocker was yesterday shot dead by police shortly after he chopped two policemen, who were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance at his Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo home.
Nidal Watkins called ‘Shawn’ held the police at bay with cutlasses for some time before he was shot at least twice by two different police officers; acts his relatives say were unjustified. They said the man had been suffering with mental issues for some time and his actions yesterday might have been sparked by the death of his mother and an issue with his reputed wife.
Relatives said that the policewoman who fired the final shot started crying after the incident and began screaming that
