Two policemen are now in hot water after they shot a mentally unstable man dead at Strathavon, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara yesterday.Dead is Junior Gulliver, called ‘Reggie’, 30 who was shot twice by two police ranks who went to his house to arrest him around 15:00 hours.Police ranks examine Gulliver’s body.The police are claiming that Gulliver attacked them with a cutlass, causing them to resort to the use of their weapons.In a statement issued last evening, the police said that about 15:00 hours yesterday ranks of the Cane Grove Police Station responded to reports that Junior Gulliver, 30,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, of Strathavon, East Coast Demerara, who was reported to be mentally unstable, was threatening a woman with a cutlass.The police stated that during their investigations,Wholesale Basketball Jerseys, Gulliver, who was armed with the cutlass, attacked the police ranks, causing the police to resort to the use of force. He was shot to his body.According to the police Gulliver was pronounced dead on arrival at the Mahaicony Hospital.“The windscreen and other parts of a motor vehicle that was used by the ranks to get to the scene (were) also damaged by Junior Gulliver during the incident,” the police stated.But the man’s relatives as well as several neighbours have a totally different version of what transpired, with many of them claiming that Gulliver’s killing was premeditated, following an earlier confrontation.When this newspaper arrived on the scene yesterday, several villagers had gathered around the area where Gulliver’s body lay on the parapet covered with a bed sheet.They were eager to give their version of how Gulliver met his death.The dead man’s brother, Kenny Gulliver, said that his brother would usually make remarks about a young woman in the village, claiming that he wanted to marry her. This angered her parents.Yesterday was the same but this time, an argument erupted and the girl’s parents reported to the police that Gulliver was threatening them.“They go to de station and bring two policemen. Me brother see de police car and he charge to de car and lash de back window and break it,” Gulliver’s brother told this newspaper.The police became afraid and drove away. According to Kenny Gulliver, who witnessed the shooting as the police were leaving they were overhead saying, “This is the last time that he gon pull cutlass pon people”The dead man’s brother said that a few minutes later, the police returned to the area, this time armed to the teeth, one with a rifle and the other with a handgun.According to Gulliver,Authentic Adidas Hockey Jerseys China, his brother, realizing that the police had returned with guns, went and hid himself.After a while, when he thought that the cops had left, Gulliver came out of his hiding place and went to his shack and began to cook a meal.“Dem police come out from de bush and dem ain’t ask leave nor licence. One fire fuss and hit and den de other one shoot he too. Den dey pick up de cutlass pon de ground like if he attack dem. Dey drag he and den dey come telling me fuh carry he to de hospital,” Kenny Gulliver explained.He said that since his brother appeared to be already dead,Cheap Jerseys China, he refused to take him to the hospital, so the body was left lying on the parapet in front of his shack.A few minutes later, other police ranks arrived and the two shooters were sent away from the scene.Another woman who said that she was an eyewitness, detailed a similar story. She said when the police returned with their weapons, they hid behind some banana suckers at the back of Gulliver’s shack.“I ask dem whey dey going and dey say dey come fuh Reggie and he gon be a dead man,Jerseys Cheap Wholesale,” the woman claimed.She said that a while later Gulliver emerged from his hiding place and went back into his shack,Wholesale Stitched Jerseys, not aware that the police were still hunting him.“When he see de police, he sit down and dey tell he dat dey come fuh he. One ah de police say dat he gon shoot he and Reggie start fuh come down to dem and is then dey start fuh shoot he,” the woman added.Another neighbour said, “I see everything. Dem shoot he with a long gun and de other one shoot with a small gun. There was no attack. Dey pre-meditated because dey talk about it before.”The dead man’s mother said that the police acted with too much force. She said that she did not mind if they had wounded him, since she could have repaid the money for the damage to the car that he had caused.But the police ranks are maintaining that they were attacked and they acted according to standard operating procedures.“If they did not shoot him, he w