A 21-year-old Guyanese man gunned down in New York in bed beside his girlfriend was killed over US$1,200 in stolen cash, sources said Monday, according to the New York Daily News.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said that Jonathan Chan and three others broke into Eric Assanah’s South Ozone Park home on Sunday as he slept and shot him in the chest. The victim’s girlfriend was beside him when he was shot, sources said.
“This is another senseless act of gun violence. The defendant allegedly unlawfully entered the victim’s residence with three other unapprehended individuals, crept into the first-floor bedroom and shot and killed the 21-year-old man,” Brown said, according to the report. “The victim’s girlfriend awoke to see her companion bleeding to death as the four men fled the scene. This was truly a nightmare come true for this young woman.”
Sources told the Daily News the shooting stemmed from Chan’s suspicion that Assanah’s girlfriend had stolen from him.
Assanah’s aunt, Carol Assanah, said Sunday that he had been terrified in the hours before his death.
He left a voicemail for his father in Guyana saying “I’m scared,” his aunt said.
