Georgetown (Guyana), SVM News, December 04, 2007: A 41-year-old pastor shot dead at his church right after a Gospel Crusade on December 2 at Hadfield Street in Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana.
Pastor Eion David of the Prophecy One Delivery Ministry Church was shot twice by a lone gunman on Sunday late night when he and the church leaders were counting the offering collected from the crusade. Pastor died on Monday morning while being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service reports that Shaundell Williams, who is the daughter of Pastor Eion David said the gunman entered the church with his face covered with a handkerchief and wearing a cap, and ordered everyone to lie on the floor and she thought it was a church member pulling a prank.
"I never in my wildest dreams thought someone would come into a church and carry out a robbery. It was not until he ordered everyone on the floor the second time that I knew it was serious; and he pulled out a gun," Shaundell said. "The robber made good his escape with an undisclosed sum of cash, a small amount of jewellery and a car key belonging to my husband Alwin Williams, who was also injured during the ordeal," she added.
Officials of the Guyanese Police Criminal Investigation Department said that Pastor Eion David sustained a gunshot wound to the head and another to the chest. The police have recovered two. 32 spent bullets from the scene.
Police authorities have taken statements from the members of the church about murdered pastor. They said they could not think of a motive for the attack since as far as they know the pastor had no grievance with anyone.
Guyana is the third smallest country in South America, lieying between Suriname to the east and Venezuela to the west, with Brazil to the south. Below 700,000 is its total population and half of it Christians. Rest of the population, 35% Hindus, 10% Muslims and others 5%. English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi and Urdu are the languages.
Nearly 20,000 people living with with HIV/AIDS in Guyana.
SVM News (with picture): http://salemvoice.org/svmnews282.html
Pastor Eion David of the Prophecy One Delivery Ministry Church was shot twice by a lone gunman on Sunday late night when he and the church leaders were counting the offering collected from the crusade. Pastor died on Monday morning while being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service reports that Shaundell Williams, who is the daughter of Pastor Eion David said the gunman entered the church with his face covered with a handkerchief and wearing a cap, and ordered everyone to lie on the floor and she thought it was a church member pulling a prank.
"I never in my wildest dreams thought someone would come into a church and carry out a robbery. It was not until he ordered everyone on the floor the second time that I knew it was serious; and he pulled out a gun," Shaundell said. "The robber made good his escape with an undisclosed sum of cash, a small amount of jewellery and a car key belonging to my husband Alwin Williams, who was also injured during the ordeal," she added.
Officials of the Guyanese Police Criminal Investigation Department said that Pastor Eion David sustained a gunshot wound to the head and another to the chest. The police have recovered two. 32 spent bullets from the scene.
Police authorities have taken statements from the members of the church about murdered pastor. They said they could not think of a motive for the attack since as far as they know the pastor had no grievance with anyone.
Guyana is the third smallest country in South America, lieying between Suriname to the east and Venezuela to the west, with Brazil to the south. Below 700,000 is its total population and half of it Christians. Rest of the population, 35% Hindus, 10% Muslims and others 5%. English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi and Urdu are the languages.
Nearly 20,000 people living with with HIV/AIDS in Guyana.
SVM News (with picture): http://salemvoice.org/svmnews282.html
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