Auto dealer execution attempt…  Gunman’s alleged accomplice still in custody

Police were up to yesterday still questioning the alleged accomplice of the gunman who shot auto spares dealer Deokaran Sanasie in Alberttown on Friday night, but have so far failed to locate the alleged trigger-man, or come up with a concrete motive for the execution attempt.

Deokaran Sanasie

Kaieteur News understands that the detained man is from Albouystown and that the CG motorcycle that police seized allegedly belongs to another Albouystown resident that police want to question. Both men are said to have lengthy criminal records. A senior police official also confirmed that Sanasie’s wife, Patricia Sanasie, gave investigators a statement, but refuted some media reports which claimed that she was in custody. Kaieteur News understands that police have also taken a statement from the wounded man, who has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital. Mrs. Sanasie also told Kaieteur News yesterday that she had no idea why anyone would have wanted to harm her husband, whom she described as a “quiet person” who had no problems with anyone. Sanasie, the owner of Ram’s Auto Spares, was shot in the abdomen and thigh at around 18:30 hrs on Friday near his Fourth and Light Street business place. Kaieteur News understands that the 58-year-old businessman, of Lot 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara, was sitting outside a hardware store near his premises when two men on a CG motorcycle suddenly stopped at the Light and Fourth Street intersection. One of the men then approached Sanasie and shot him twice. A security guard told Kaieteur News that he heard two gunshots and then saw Sanasie clutching at his chest. He said that persons in the area took the wounded man to a private hospital. Sanasie’s  wife had told Kaieteur News on Friday that she was driving at around 18:30 hrs when she received a call from her husband, who informed her that he had been shot and was in the hospital. She recalled that her husband was in a stable condition and was able to speak.