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Police shoot Wanted man ‘Colonel’ dead

Jun 10, 2010 News

Police on Tuesday night, acting on information, ambushed and shot dead wanted man, 40-year-old David Mc Pherson, called Colonel.
Mc Pherson was killed after he was cornered in a bushy area of a yard behind a shop in his home village of Betsy Ground, East Canje.
Police in a press release stated that upon arrival the ranks saw McPherson in the yard armed with a cutlass.
“As the ranks approached to arrest him, McPherson attacked one of them with a cutlass causing the rank to resort to the use of force and he was shot to his abdomen. He was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was pronounced DOA,” the police press release stated.
The wanted man had escaped capture earlier this week when police raided his hideout.
Kaieteur News understands that the police received information that the man who was wanted for a number of armed robberies, had returned to the area and was hiding out in a bushy area behind a shop.
The cops organised themselves and two jeep loads and a car of policemen quickly descended on the area at around 21:00 hrs.
Moving under the cover of darkness with some of the cops dressed in civilian clothes, they parked their vehicles some distance away and walked to the area. They surrounded the vicinity and moved in on their target. Shortly after shots were fired.
One eyewitness said that neighbours quickly turned off their lights as gunshots started to reverberate in the neighbourhood.
Mc Pherson, it is said, was hit during this period.
According to the eyewitness the cops simultaneously raided a few other abandoned houses but came up empty handed as they searched for the other men who are reportedly part of McPherson’s gang.
Kaieteur News understands that another man wanted in connection with a robbery committed in Betsy Ground on Monday called ‘Duck’ was in the vicinity and manage to elude the police dragnet.
According to reports, McPherson, who was released from prison last December, was wanted by the authorities after an arrest warrant had been issued for him after he was sentenced to five years imprisonment in his absence.
He had encountered the police on Monday who were chasing two men who had committed a daring daylight robbery around 07:30 hrs on Betsy Ground businessman, Maurice ‘Bayee’ Sookraj,
Sookraj was robbed of cash as well as a quantity of articles including jewellery, a cell phone and other electronic equipment.
Police are convinced that McPherson had managed to elude police then, but the Police believe that he was injured.
During the raid on his hideout earlier this week the police had recovered an improvised 12 gauge shotgun, 18 live 12-gauge cartridges, two black masks, one wig, one crow bar, one torch light and a kitchen knife and a quantity of clothing.
They also found a part of a computer taken from Sookraj during the robbery as well as a bag with three pounds of marijuana.
It is understood that Mc Pherson was being encourage to surrender by relatives and friends and he had promised to do so soon.
Police had continued their search for McPherson and the two who were said to have robbed the businessman on Monday.
According to the police McPherson’s fact sheet reads like one of a seasoned criminal.
Apart from being sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in his absence, McPherson was fingered in two robberies in the Canje, during one of which a man was shot in the ankle.
He was also wanted in connection with an armed robbery last week in which another victim had his finger shot off.
“He led a gang that was operating in the Canje/Black Bush area,” a police source told this newspaper.
The source also informed that a man, Bhojnarine Ramkissoon, called ‘Duck’, 27, of Betsy ground, who is suspected to be a member of McPherson’s gang turned himself in yesterday around 13:00 hours in the company of his attorney Charrandass Persaud, to the Reliance Police Station.
Meanwhile, the five persons who were in custody following the robbery and were being held for harboring criminal elements were released.
McPherson’s relatives were tight lipped, but said that they are prepared to take over the body for burial.

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