Excavator operator shot during robbery at Good Hope

Thirty-one-year-old Gowtam Williams, an excavator operator of Hiberna, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) is currently nursing wounds about his body after he was shot in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. He is currently in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Suddie Public Hospital.

Williams was at a popular rum shop in Good Hope, on the Essequibo Coast, when he shot and robbed.

According to reports, at about 03:30 hours, he went to use the urinal in front of the establishment when he was approached by two armed men who attacked and robbed him, shooting him some nine times.