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Gunmen flee empty-handed after shooting shopowner

Dec 14, 2010 News

A Surat Drive, Triumph, East Coast Demerara businessman is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation with a gunshot wound to the neck he sustained during a botched robbery last night.
Loki Narine, 58, underwent immediate surgery to close the wound following the attack perpetrated by four young men just before 21:00 hours.
Narine was shot after he hesitated to open the door to his shop when ordered to do so by the bandits.
His wife, Drupattie, who was in another section of the property fled to safety after she saw her husband slumped in a pool of blood.
At the time of the robbery attempt, only Narine and his wife were at home. Their son was somewhere else in the village.
Kaieteur News understands that the four youths, one of whom was brandishing a gun, barged into Narine’s yard and confronted him while he was sitting at the counter behind in the heavily grilled shop.
Narine froze at the order and before he could make another move the apparently panic-stricken bandits fired several shots into the shop one of which struck the businessman in his neck.
“I hear a thing go off and by the time I run to see, I hear they say ‘Gimme de money. Pass de money’ and dem fire two more shot and I run away to the back,” Drupattie Narine told this newspaper.
The woman said that she did not get a glimpse of the gunmen since she was so terrified.
She said that since her husband was shot there was no way he could have opened the door to let the bandits in so they were forced to flee empty handed.
Her husband’s nephew, who lived opposite the shop, said that he saw when the bandits entered the shop.
“Me see dem start fire de shots and me call fuh me cousin. By time dem follow de shots, dem run out,” the injured businessman’s nephew recalled.
He said that he eventually came over to Narine’s residence where he saw his uncle slumped in a pool of blood.
He then assisted in putting him into the car that eventually took him to the hospital.
Police are expected to review surveillance footage with the hope of identifying the perpetrators.

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