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Cops shoot suspected bandit

Aug 11, 2012 News

 

– gun stashed in brief
Police shot an armed motorcyclist at around 20:00 hrs yesterday during what sources said was a botched robbery in Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg.
A 41-year-old woman who was standing nearby was accidentally shot in the leg.
The man, said to be of African ancestry, was shot at least four times in the chest and upper body. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) but a source said that his chances of survival are slim.
Police reportedly retrieved two handguns from the wounded man and also impounded the CG motorcycle he was riding. One of the handguns was reportedly stashed in the man’s underwear.
A police source said that an accomplice of the wounded bandit managed to escape.
Also injured was Yonette Cummings, a Thomas Street resident. She was struck in the right leg.
Cummings told Kaieteur News that she was standing on the roadside when a motorcycle and a minibus suddenly stopped nearby. She said that the occupants of the bus then opened fire.
The woman said that she felt a ‘stinging’ on her right leg and fled back to her residence. It was then that she felt blood running down her leg and realised that she had been shot. A neighbour then took her to the GPHC.
At press time, police were still trying to identify the wounded man.

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