Manslaughter charge recommended for security guard in East Coast auto sales shooting

Almost three months after 18-year-old Jared Jagnandan was fatally shot at his East Coast Demerara workplace, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the Police to charge the security guard, who allegedly inflicted the wound, with manslaughter.

The News Room understands that the file was recently returned to the Police, who were previously asked to further investigate the matter, with advice to charge the 20-year-old security guard who is attached to a private security firm, at the soonest.

Jagnandan was fatally shot at Shaf Auto Sales, Lusignan, ECD, on March 21.

The teenager was a Sales and Marketing Representative who lived at Martyrs’ Ville, ECD. The guard was employed with the auto company.

Following the shooting, the guard was arrested.

According to the Police report, the businessman who manages Shaf Auto Sales told the Police that he and his wife returned to the store around 11:10hrs after transacting business and observed the suspect and the teen seated in a chair, a short distance away from the security officer’s desk.

The businessman further noted that he and his wife proceeded to his office, and a few minutes later, they heard a loud explosion in the store.

He told Police that he immediately exited his office, where he saw Jared lying motionless on the ground with blood on the lower section of his body.

The security officer told him Jared was shot.

Jared was taken to the Woodlands Hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.

Since the shooting, Jagnandan parents have been calling for a thorough investigation into his death in their quest for justice.