`B’ Field Sophia shootings being probed by cops

Jaleel Leow

The Guyana Police Force is now probing two separate shooting incidents in Sophia which have left two persons hospitalized with a number of gunshot wounds and which may have some connection with two murders.

According to  police reports, it was explained that around 9.30 pm on Thursday, a 34-year-old businesswoman and her reputed husband, a 47-year-old minibus driver were at a shop, situated at their home in ‘B’ Field Sophia, when three unidentified men armed with guns approached them.

At the time, the bus driver related that his wife and a friend were at the front of the shop, while he was inside. The men exited the heavily tinted car with unknown plates and discharged several rounds at him and his wife, re-entered the car and escaped.