-after householder fires at car on driveway

A Tucville businessman was taken into police custody after he opened fire on a vehicle that turned onto his bridge on Tuesday night, killing the driver and injuring his companion.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Colin Perreira, 25, an excavator operator of Kitty and the attempted murder of Gailann Chacon, 20.

The statement explained that according to the initial investigations, Perreira was driving a heavily tinted vehicle and his friend, Chacon, was in the passenger seat. Perreira was reportedly attempting to turn the vehicle around using the man’s bridge, when the man, who was in his yard at the time, drew his licensed handgun and discharged several rounds at the vehicle. Perreira and Chacon were hit about their bodies. The police were alerted and when they responded, the victims were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where Perreira was pronounced dead on arrival. Chacon was admitted in a critical condition.

“Well we were in church around 9 last night [Tuesday] and when we came out his mother got a call from my cousin and she said let’s go home,” Elizabeth Roberts, Perreira’s cousin told Stabroek News. She explained that Perreira’s mother subsequently told her that someone had called and informed her that her son had been shot.

“We were waiting on the bus but it was taking long and we wanted to rush down so this pastor gave us a drop to the place [Tucville],” she said, adding that when they arrived on the scene Perreira and Chacon had already been rushed to the hospital and the police were wrapping up their probe.

She added that they were told to visit the East Ruimveldt Police Station and when they got there the police told them that Perreira had been shot multiple times. “We rush to the hospital and is on the way we got a call saying that he dead,” the tearyeyed woman related.

Roberts pointed out that from what she was told, Perreira had gone Tucville to pick Chacon’s family.

“We came down for a to up