Middle St shooter was holed up in salon, had no access to CCTV cameras

Deryck Khanai

Deryck Kanhai, the miner who took the lives of four persons on Tuesday before he was killed during a shoot-out with police was in the bottom flat of his building for the duration of the standoff and did not have access to his CCTV camera monitors as previously thought.

Kanhai, who hailed from Karrau, Region Seven was the owner of several dredges and he was in the process of constructing a hotel in Bartica.

On Tuesday, Kanhai single-handedly held dozens of police officers at bay from his 315 Middle Street home for more than