Charlestown man wanted over fatal ‘game bird’ shooting

Mark Assing

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for the man alleged to have shot and killed McDoom, East Bank Demerara resident Abiola Eddie-Barker last month, after she intervened in a row he had with her son over a game bird.

Mark Assing, called ‘Jessy,’ 42, whose last address was given as Lot 41 Sussex Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, is wanted by police for Eddie-Barker’s murder.

On June 20, last month, Eddie-Barker, her son, Martin Barker, 21, and a cousin, Lesha George, 33, were shot during an argument with a neighbor, who had accused Barker of