The chase degenerated. A woman was killed and a child was injured by gunfire in Cayenne on Saturday in an attempted phone and jewelry theft that did not involve her. We learned from the public prosecutor on Monday that the two perpetrators of the attack had fled. The events took place on Saturday afternoon: two armed people tried to rob a young man carrying a phone and jewelry, but he did not give in and ran away, according to Yves Le Clair, the prosecutor of the Republic of Cayenne.
A chase ensues during which the criminals open fire. The person being pursued “believes he has been hit, falls and then gets up again,” the public prosecutor specifies. However, the shots did not hit him, but rather a woman and a small child who were nearby. The perpetrators then fled the scene, the judge said.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the woman was pronounced dead on site by emergency services at 5:13 p.m. The child, aged 2 or 3, was taken to the hospital. His vital prognosis was then at risk, which was no longer the case on Monday morning, as assured by the police, who also confirmed a family connection between the two victims. The investigation has been entrusted to the Cayenne Criminal Investigation Department.
In the summer of 2022, the Cayenne Public Prosecutor’s Office experimented with the criminal classification of seizures of less than 1.5 kg of cocaine in Guyana, in particular with the aim of “increasing efforts to combat violence on public streets”.