Was a plainclothes policeman engaged in a mission on behalf of an irate motorist on Mandela Avenue on Friday which resulted in one man being fatally shot and another injured?
This is one of the questions that the police force will have to address following conflicting reports. The police will also have to settle whether the plainclothes policeman accidentally fatally wounded Elvis Fernandes who had been in the same vehicle with him.
Fernandes’ family has so far not spoken about his death but Lloyd Britton, the man who was injured in the Friday evening incident has denied that he had a weapon and that he had discharged the fatal bullet at Fernandes as the police claimed in a press release. Britton’s version is that Fernandes was fatally shot by the plainclothes policeman. Britton said
his wound was as a result of the policeman shooting at him. The police in their statement also said that Britton was shot by the policeman but that Britton had been in possession of a gun.
All of the reports gathered by Stabroek News thus far suggest that the
