Taxi dispatcher shot, driver robbed

Apr 24, 2009 News

Bandits shot a 17-year-old taxi service dispatcher at around 20:00 hrs last night in Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, after robbing a driver he was with of a gold band, ring and $8,000 in cash.
Emmett Hinds, of Sophia, was shot in the neck as he sat in a vehicle that was parked across the road from the C and J Express Taxi Service where he works as a dispatcher. He was introduced to the job by his 24-year-old brother who is said to be a co-owner of the taxi service, just the other day.
The elder brother rushed Hinds to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was scheduled to undergo surgery.
Up to press time, the bullet was still lodged in the teen’s neck and he was said to be
bleeding internally.
Kaieteur News understands that the taxi service is owned by the victim’s brother, Carlton Hinds.
The driver, Roysdale Sutton, 32, of Section ‘C’ Enterprise, said that he and Hinds were sitting in the vehicle, HB 4993, when two men—one of them dreadlocked and the other with low-cropped hair—approached them.
Sutton said that one of the men then pointed a hand gun and ordered him to hand over his valuables.
The driver said that he complied, giving them a gold band, a gold ring and a small sum of cash. He alleged that Hinds remarked, “Is just suh?”
This apparently annoyed the gunman, who responded by shooting Hinds in the neck.
Sutton said that the bandits then fled through a nearby alleyway to the north of Joseph Pollydore Street.
Natasha Hamid, another dispatcher, said that Hinds was scheduled to take over from her at 20:00 hrs.
However, he arrived at around 19:00 hrs and decided to go across the road to play a game of pools. He opted to sit in one of the vehicles with Sutton until his shift started.
Hamid said that she was approaching the same vehicle when she heard a sound that she mistook for a bulb exploding or a firecracker. But then she heard Sutton, the driver, shouting that Hinds had been shot.
She said that the teen’s brother, who had arrived a few minutes earlier, took his wounded sibling to hospital.
At the hospital, the shot teen was conscious and was providing information about the shooting. However, the internal bleeding was source of worry.

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