Guard charged with firing submachine gun at woman

A security guard was yesterday charged with possession of an Intratec 9 mm Luger submachine gun, which police said he used to shoot at a woman and then tried to stash in a septic tank when law enforcers approached him.

Edward Hubert McCollin, 35, of Lot 67 South Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, was remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the city, after he pleaded not guilty to the two charges read to him.

It is alleged that on June 5, at East La Penitence, McCollin had the submachine gun without