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Teen wounded in shootout gave cops bogus name
Shot: Robin Holder
– accomplice wanted for Cayenne murder
by Michael Jordan
The 19-year-old man who was shot by police near the Mandela Avenue Texaco Service Station gave the ranks a false name. In fact, he is a suspect in several armed robberies.
Kaieteur News confirmed last night that the suspect, who claimed to be Akeem Rose, is actually Robin Holder.
Police sources said that Holder is wanted for questioning in connection with several armed robberies. The matters include the 2009 shooting of a man in Norton Street. The victim was relieved of a gold chain.
He is also believed to have been involved in a robbery last year in South Ruimveldt, in which the victim was relieved of a licenced firearm.
Kaieteur News understands that police believe that Holder’s accomplice may be a man known as ‘Cobra’, who is suspected to have murdered a man in Cayenne in 2009.
Police believe that the men were planning a robbery when the TSU ranks confronted them on Wednesday night near the service station.
When Kaieteur News spoke to the handcuffed Holder yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital, the teen still insisted that his name was Akeem Rose. However, his relatives have confirmed that his correct name is Robin Holder and that he has had previous brushes with the law.
Police said that Holder, of North East La Penitence, was shot in the left hip and groin when he and an accomplice opened fire at a police patrol while sitting in a car.
But Holder had told Kaieteur News that he was shot by the occupants of a black car and that he was unarmed at the time.
A police release stated that ranks were on patrol at around 23:00 hrs on Wednesday when they saw two men in a car that was parked in the compound of the Mandela Avenue Texaco Service Station.
Kaieteur News was told that two Tactical Services Unit ranks were approaching the vehicle when they came under gunfire.
Police sources said that the policemen discharged seven rounds at the gunmen, who fled north along Mandela Avenue before running into North East La Penitence.
However, they said that Holder collapsed in a clump of bushes.
Police said that they recovered a black .38 revolver (serial number 2173906) with five rounds and a spent shell from the suspect.
Speaking to Kaieteur News from his hospital bed on Thursday, Holder claimed that he is employed at a Sheriff Street establishment and that the incident occurred shortly after he and a friend had left work
The teen claimed that he and the friend had travelled by taxi to the Mandela Avenue Service Station, where he purchased a loaf of bread.
The youth claimed that he and his friend were returning to the taxi when the occupants of a black car opened fire at them and wounded him in the process. Holder said that he collapsed in a gutter near the Church of the Transfiguration, while his friend fled the scene.
He was then taken to the GPHC by police ranks.
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