Dead is Police Constable, Lloyd Cameron, 23, of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

Cameron who lived at 78 Plum Park, Sophia received five gunshot wounds to his head and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital. The shooting occurred about 08:00 hours, a few hundred meters away from his home.

Police in a press release said the Constable was walking along a track on Plum Park, Sophia on his way to work at the CID Headquarters, Eve Leary, when two men approached him from the opposite direction.

One of them grabbed the Constable who resisted and they fell into a drain. The Policeman who was armed attempted to draw his service firearm, but the other man who was on the dam, whipped out a fire arm and shot him several times.

Both men then fled south into Sophia, but not before taking the policeman’s weapon and a magazine containing fifteen rounds. Four 9mm spent shells and one live 9mm round were found at the scene.

Eyewitness said there were two attackers. One of them was short, dark and squatty and the other was tall and fair. The news of Cameron’s brutal killing, sent shock waves through his entire neighbourhood.

Many persons from the neighbourhood who gathered at the scene of the shooting were evidently outraged.

Relatives and close friends of the deceased man wept bitterly as the body was taken away by a hearse.

The killing was a double tragedy for them because it was only on Wednesday last the deceased man’s mother was buried after she succumbed to a prolonged illness.

Cameron was described as a well respected person in the neighbourhood and was loved by many. It was also reported that the policeman might have been mistakenly killed because the two gunmen were asking for Marlon who is said to be another Policeman.

Cameron left to morn his reputed wife, Melissa, his two sons, Denzel 2, and Lloyd Junior Kelly, 3. Constable Cameron joined the Guyana Police Force on May 7, 1999. Commissioner and ranks of the Police force expressed profound sympathy to the immediate family, relatives and friends of the late Constable.

Shooting to death of the law enforcement officer comes just days after Police foiled an attempt by two armed gunmen to execute one of their colleagues at Hadfield Street, Lodge.

According to reports, last Saturday afternoon two armed men, one of whom is wanted by the police, were staking out under a Benab in a yard along Hadfied Street in an attempt to capture and execute a policeman who was at the time playing a game of football on a nearby field.

Luckily, the policeman was tipped off by a nearby resident who spotted the suspicious looking men and immediately called him on his cellular phone.

The law enforcement officer reportedly took to the middle of the field, used his phone and summoned his colleagues who arrived shortly after in pursuit of the men.