Three men are being sought in connection with the murder of a young Cuban in Guyana

The Guyanese police issued search warrants on Wednesday for three men identified as responsible for the murder of Dainier Vegas Infante, a 23-year-old Cuban who was shot at his workplace in Georgetown last Sunday.

According to the Guyanese media Demerara Waves, the three identified suspects are Mikhail Mario Joseph, 26 years old; Baraka Haraohn Bayneuzzi Garnett, 25 years old; and Nicholas Daby, whose age was not disclosed. All three are wanted for the homicide committed on May 10 at Lot 23, Forshaw Street, Queenstown.

Vegas Infante was working as a janitor at a bar on that street when, around 5:45 in the morning, four men arrived at the establishment.

One of the suspects, armed with a gun, approached two people sitting outside the establishment and started a conversation with them.

"It is alleged that the deceased later exited the establishment and approached the suspects, at which point the armed suspect fired in his direction, causing him to fall to the ground," the police stated in an official communiqué.

After the crime, the shooter fled in a vehicle down Forshaw Street, while the other suspects escaped in separate cars.

The government surveillance system allowed for the identification of a car linked to the case, which led to the arrest of a 45-year-old woman, manager of an establishment in Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara. However, the police have not updated the status of that detainee in their most recent statements.

Authorities noted that the four main suspects remain at large and are believed to be foreigners as well.

The police request anyone with information to call 911 or the numbers 227-1611, 268-2328, 268-2329, 226-3411, 225-8196, and 227-1159, or to go to the nearest police station.

The crime of Vegas Infante occurs in the context of a growing wave of violence against Cubans in Guyana that has intensified since October 2024.

Since that date, at least five Cubans have lost their lives in that country: Yuni Zamora Castro, José Aurelio Ramírez, Davely Morales, Pedro Alexander Frometa Slonchak —shot by a security guard in a supermarket in Georgetown in August 2025— and Ariel Betancourt Ramírez, stabbed in an apparent robbery in December 2025.

In April 2026, a 19-year-old Cuban survived in Guyana after an emergency surgery for a knife embedded in his brain.

The Cuban community in that country is estimated to be between 5,000 and 7,000 people, primarily concentrated in Georgetown, where they work in construction and services, many of whom are in precarious immigration situations.