Annandale shooting…It could be a while before alleged bandit faces the court- Police source

Apr 13, 2014 News

Dunstan La Fleur, the alleged bandit who was shot by an Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman more than three months ago, will be charged upon recovery, according to a police source.
La Fleur, who is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s High-Dependency-Unit, was shot once to his lower right side face by a licensed firearm holder following a 20-minute gun battle between him and the businessman in whose house he was caught.
Yesterday, the source informed this publication that a file on the matter is almost complete.
“A file is almost complete but we will have to wait until he is discharged from the hospital, interview him and then send the file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) office for advice,” the police source said.
The 28-year-old alleged bandit was first hospitalized in a very critical condition at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. He was on a life support machine and was at first described as “lifeless.” After his condition improved, he was transferred to the High Dependency Unit.”
Kaieteur News was told that La Fleur had gained entry into the businessman, Mananno Jeffrey’s home, through an open window in the family’s bathroom located in the bottom flat of the two-storey building.
The 31-year-old businessman is a Rural Constable and a member of the Annandale North Community Policing Group.
He had explained to this newspaper that his father, Ishwar Jeffrey, woke him up and informed him that three men were in the yard.
“He went to the bathroom upstairs and he heard some strange sounds. When he peeped through the downstairs window, he saw the three men trying to get into the house,” the businessman explained.
He added that he was about to fire a warning shot but noticed that one of the bandits had already got into his home. “I went downstairs but was confronted by this guy. It was me and him, face to face, and he had a gun in his hand.”
Jeffrey said that he fired a shot at the bandit but missed. “When I fired the shot, he run in the guest room (located in the lower flat) and was shaking the grill hard, hard and like he realize the only way he could have escaped was through the same bathroom window.”
According to the 31-year-old man who operates a food stall and owns a fishing boat, the bandit then peeked out the room and fired a shot. “He had no idea that I was hiding at the side of the wall. So when he fired the shot, he came out the room, pointing his gun straight and I was right at the side of him but he didn’t see me and I fired the shot.”
“He fall down and I run out to look for the other two men but they had already escaped,” Jeffrey said.
He added that police officers arrived at his home about one and a half hours later and took the badly injured man to the hospital where he remains a patient.

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