Activist executed while urging persons to vote

Known activist Courtney Crum-Ewing of Diamond Housing Scheme was shot dead on Tuesday night on Third Street Avenue in what some say was an execution style killing.Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle suggested that four men in a white car approached Ewing while he was using a loud hailer encouraging persons to come out and vote on May 11 and to vote correctly.
Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle at the Lyken Funeral Home where she identified the body along with other relatives, the dead man’s mother, Donna Brown Harcourt, said that she was at home when she received the news that her eldest son was murdered.
She said information which she received confirmed that the man was walking along the Diamond Road when a car pulled up alongside him and the shot was fired. Persons said that they heard what sounded like a transformer exploding, but when they looked outside all they saw was a white car speeding away even as the body of the man lay on the ground.
During her interview the woman related that her son had reported to her that he was fearful for his life as he mentioned that he was indirectly threatened.
Already the relatives of the man are calling for there to be an independent postmortem conducted on the body and are suggesting that the job be done by someone outside of Guyana.
Last evening family members and other friends of the man broke down in tears as his body was seen lying lifelessly on the roadway. Following their investigation, at the scene and gathering of information, the police placed the remains of the man in the back of a pickup and rushed him to the Diamond Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.