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Bandit shot in face, belly

Jan 25, 2011 News

By Latoya Giles

A man described as a well known criminal was battling for his life last night after a businessman shot him during a foiled robbery at the Serenity Bar, on Joseph Pollydore Street Lodge.
The suspect, identified as Robin Akeem Holder, 25, was shot in the face and abdomen.
He collapsed at the scene and when the police arrived they found the jewellery and cellular phone that he had taken from the businessman.
This newspaper was told that Holder’s accomplice managed to escape after the businessman opened fire.
It is still unclear if the accomplice was shot.
A close relative of the owner of the business told Kaieteur News that the two men who were “well dressed” walked into the premises shortly after 20:00hrs.
The relative further told this newspaper that the owner, Joan Williams, was tending to other customers when one of the bandits confronted her.
“They come to her and seh ‘hand over de money nobody ain’t gon get kill’,” the relative explained. The woman complied and handed the bandits a quantity of jewellery and two cell phones. These were found on Holder when the police came to take him to hospital.
It is unclear if they managed to get any cash.
However, the two bandits did not cater for the fact that Williams’s spouse is a licenced firearm holder.
The woman’s husband, who was nearby, realised that his wife was being robbed and opened fire on the two bandits.
One was wounded while the other managed to flee through a nearby alleyway. The wounded bandit was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation by police ranks who had raced to the scene.
Police sources said that Holder had been incarcerated for matters of a similar nature.
The nightspot according to relatives was opened last December.
The Williamses, according to sources, recently remigrated to Guyana.

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