A 25-year-old gold miner is now dead after he was pinned by a tree on Monday at a mining backdam in Region Seven.The dead man has been identified as Ravin Moses of Charity, Essequibo Coast.The man’s mother, Patricia Moses said he left home in the are
POLICE shot and killed two young men in Dibe, Long Circular, yesterday, taking the number of people killed by police this year so far to 56.
In this latest incident, police said the men fired at them and they fired back. Relatives of one of the men however claimed otherwise.
Killed were Jeremiah Ellis, 18, and Shane Moses, 20.
Police said around 5 a.m. yesterday officers from the St James Police Station and Western Division Task Force went to Tractor Hill, off Dibe, Long Circular, where they attempted to search a house in the area, but when they got close to the dwelling two men walked out and opened fire on them.
Family of man killed by police confused over circumstances
Shane Moses, 21. -
Antoinette Ellis, the mother of 18-year-old Jeremiah Ellis – one of two men killed during a police-involved shooting in Long Circular, St James early on Monday morning, said she is confused and heartbroken over the death of her son.
Police said members of the Western Division Task Force went to the younger Ellis Tractor Hill home off Dibe Road to search the house at around 4 am when they were shot at by someone inside.
They shot back at the house and saw Ellis and another man identified as 21-year-old Shane Moses on the ground bleeding.