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Cops request Citizens Bank camera recordings

May 11, 2011 News

Police are still to check the surveillance cameras at Citizens Bank on Mandela Avenue for images of the gunman who shot and robbed two gas station employees last Friday night.
A senior police official told Kaieteur News yesterday that investigators have written to the bank’s management requesting to look at the images that the cameras recorded at the time of the heist.
The official revealed that cameras from a nearby business entity failed to pick up the gunman’s activities.
Kaieteur News understands that police have taken statements from the two wounded employees.
A source said that security guard Pierre Fordyce, who was shot in the upper thigh, has been discharged from hospital. His colleague, Wahid Mohamed, who was shot in the jaw, is said to be still recuperating at the GPHC.
Mohamed and Fordyce, both employees of Two Brothers Gas Station, were about to deposit an undisclosed sum of cash at the Citizens Bank branch on Mandela Avenue when a lone gunman shot them.
They had uplifted the money from their employer’s Eccles, East Bank Demerara branch.
Fordyce suspects that accomplices of the gunman had trailed them in a car.
Fordyce had told Kaieteur News that they were driving in the vicinity of National Hardware Limited when he spotted a gold-coloured AT192 behind them.
The security guard said that he informed Mohamed, who was driving, about the presence of the car.
According to Fordyce, the car eventually drove past their vehicle and stopped on Mandela Avenue.
Meanwhile, the employees had stopped outside the bank.
He said that he was about to speak to Mohamed when a man, who was standing on the northern section of Mandela Avenue near to a furniture store, walked across to their vehicle. The man ordered them out of the car and then opened fire.
Fordyce refuted a police statement which said that he and Mohamed were putting up a resistance when they were shot.
The security employee said that the gunman then dragged Mohamed out of the car and entered the driver’s seat. According to Fordyce, he was unaware that he too had been hit until he tried to
exit the vehicle and realised that one of his legs was numb.
He then began to clamber through the window on his side and the gunman pushed him out of the vehicle.
Fordyce recounted that the gunman then drove up to the gold-coloured car and a man exited the vehicle and joined the gunman in the stolen car, PHH 3712.
Fordyce said that police ranks arrived some 20 minutes later and took him and Mohamed to the GPHC.
In an interview with Kaieteur News Commander of ‘A’ Division, Assistant Police Commissioner George Vyphuis urged the business community to employ armed guards when transporting large sums of cash or making night deposits.

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