30-year-old Ministry of Culture employee, Marissa Beete was shot dead by her estranged ex-boyfriend, Ghalee Khan, last evening at her West Demerara home. Khan is currently hospitalised nursing a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The two reportedly shared a relationship for just over the years, but it ended recently over a misunderstanding.
The dead woman’s mother told Police investigators that she was at home with her daughter last evening when Khan showed up at their home. The mother said she warned the daughter not to open the door, but she insisted that the man just wanted to talk with her.
The mother said she went to the back of the house moments after the daughter’s 47-year-old ex-boyfriend entered the house. She said moments after she left them to themselves, she heard loud explosions. The mother said she rushed to the front of the house, where she was confronted with her daughter’s bleeding body slouched on the ground and the man standing over her with a gun in hand. The daughter was bleeding from the head.
The 62-year-old woman, Jennifer Vaughn said she rushed and held on to the suspect who fired another shot before pushing her to the ground. He turned the gun on himself and fired a shot to his head, but survived.
Persons in the area along with the mother rushed the bleeding young woman to the West Demerara Hospital as the Police were summoned. The Police arrested the injured Ghalee Khan and took him to the same hospital.
At the hospital, the woman was pronounced dead. The Police said she suffered a gunshot wound to the head just over her right eye.
The injured Ghalee Khan was transferred to the Georgetown Hospital, where he reportedly underwent surgery last evening. Police investigators recovered the man’s gun with three live rounds at the murder scene, and he remains under Police guard at the hospital.
Khan was deported from the United States last year after serving four years on a drug trafficking conviction. He flew out from Guyana and surrendered to US Law Enforcement in 2020 on an outstanding drug trafficking and fugitive warrant after hiding out in Guyana for several years.
In Guyana, he owned and operated the Integrated Security Service. He resuscitated the security service on a smaller scale last year after being deported from the US.
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