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– lone gunman escapes with $1.3M
Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital are closely monitoring the condition of a taxi driver who was shot by a lone gunman during a brazen robbery.
Sixty-year-old Winston Andrews, of Omai Street, Prashad Nagar, is currently being treated for a gunshot wound to his right side chest at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s High Dependency Unit.
According to a police statement, the incident occurred at about 00:30 hours yesterday at the man’s home.
The police account of the incident stated that Andrews was opening the gate to his residence when he was confronted by the armed man who shot him and drove away with his Toyota Carina AT 192 motor vehicle, PKK 474, which reportedly had $1.3 million inside.
The wounded 60-year-old Winston Andrews
According to the police, three .45 spent shells have been recovered from the scene.
However, the man’s wife, Maria Andrews, said that she hopes that the police carry out a thorough investigation into the matter since she has her suspicions.
According to Mrs. Andrews, on Monday night she tried contacting her husband via cellular phone but he failed to answer so she retired to bed.
She said not long after her husband called asking her to come to a store not far from their home since a police patrol had stopped him to carry out a search.
“I went and when I reach I see police searching de car so they see the money and they ask where we get it from and we show them receipt because is the boss man money,” Mrs. Andrews recalled.
She added that the police then instructed them to take the money home since it was not safe to be moving around with that amount of cash.
“But before we move off the police ask we where we living…anyway I left me husband and I walk back home and shortly after he come home, because I hear when the car pull up on the bridge.”
Mrs. Andrews said shortly after she heard her husband screaming for help saying he was being robbed and that the man had a gun.
“I was going to run outside but my son hold me back and the next thing I hear is a loud noise,” she added.
Eventually the woman said she went to her husband’s rescue only to find him bleeding profusely form a wound to his stomach.
What was more alarming, the woman said, was the fact that the same police car which had stopped her husband was parked obliquely to their home and left immediately after her husband was shot.
The wounded Andrews was picked up by relatives and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was treated and subsequently admitted.
His condition was listed as stable.
Yesterday afternoon, relatives said that his condition seemed to be deteriorating since he was unable to speak and had to be given oxygen.
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