It has been one year since the peace and tranquility of the community of Dartmouth on the Essequibo Coast were shattered when a blood-seeking SWAT squad of the Guyana Police Force entered the bedroom of businessman and law-abiding citizen Orin Boston under the shroud of darkness on September 15, 2021, and shot him dead in his sleep, as he lay in bed with his wife and children in the next room.
Boston, 29, of Hoppie Street, Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast was killed instantly. In a statement days later, the police said that ranks from the SWAT unit were conducting the operation at around 4:40 am during which they went to the home of Boston to undertake a search and it was during the search, the police said, there was a “confrontation” between Boston and the police, resulting in him being shot—an account refuted by his wife.
Fiona Boston, wife of the slain businessman, would later reveal that her husband was shot and killed by ranks of the SWAT Unit while he was sleeping. During an interview with Big Smith Crime Watch just after the incident, Fiona said that around 04:00hrs this morning, ranks from the SWAT team burst into the family’s Dartmouth home and shot her husband in his bed.
According to Fiona, her husband was shot and killed, before anyone could ask why the officers were in their home. “They come in and kick the back-room door and shoot he… he was sleeping when they shoot he. Right on the bed he went lay down sleeping, and I lay down on the other side, all I hear the door kick in, the gunfire off, he halla… ‘ah’ and that was it,” Fiona told the journalist.
The woman said that her little daughter rushed into the room to see what had transpired but was escorted out by a rank of the SWAT Unit. She went on to say, “after they done shoot he, they tell me don’t move and I left lay down on the bed right next to him, because I left shock, I didn’t know what happened.”
The woman’s side of the story contradicts what the police said on the matter. In a release sent to the press, police said Boston was shot ‘during a confrontation.’ The man’s wife is however saying that there was no confrontation. When asked if the officers indicated why they were there, the woman replied saying, “they just come just like that and they start cuss up, they didn’t say why they were there.”
Additional information indicated that nothing illegal was found on the businessman’s premises. Following the shooting, Boston was whisked away by the SWAT van to the Suddie Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The man’s killing, which many have since described as excessive force, had resulted in days of protest in the Dartmouth Community.
A police constable Sherwin Peters, 32 of Amelia’s Ward, Linden, was later charged with manslaughter for the murder of Boston and granted $1 million bail.
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