The gunmen moved forward and fired more shots into their fallen victims. There was nothing to prevent them from storming the Otter and Cessna and killing everyone left alive there, or charging into the brush to hunt down those who’d run. Instead, they returned to the truck and tractor-trailer and drove away. The four Guyanese soldiers who’d been standing guard by the disabled army plane watched from a distance. They said later that they’d been prepared to intervene, but decided against it because it was Americans shooting Americans, and they might somehow be blamed if they became involved.
