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Gang member shot dead after snatching $1.7M
– accomplice manages to escape
By Latoya Giles
A 21-year-old suspected gang member was shot dead yesterday following a botched robbery at Ramchand’s Auto Spares store on 51 Sheriff and Duncan Streets, Campbellville.
Photo taken from Field’s facebook page, shows him splurging large sums of money.
Kevin Fields, 21, of Lot 164 Titus Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, was reportedly shot in the neck shortly after snatching a bag containing approximately $1.7M from a businessman who had entered the store.
According to reports, at around 12.00 hrs, the businessman, who had just left a city bank and Silvies General Store on High Street, entered the spare parts store. An eyewitness said that the businessman walked into the store with the bag and was about to transact business when Fields walked in.
The eyewitness told Kaieteur News that Fields snatched the bag from the man and sprinted out of the building to an accomplice on a waiting motorcycle. He then attempted to escape on the motorcycle but fell off.
“Soon as he jump on the bike, the speed they take off with he (Fields) fall off,” the eyewitness told Kaieteur News. By this time, the businessman who is a licensed firearm holder, and some of the store’s employees, started running towards Fields, whose accomplice had already left the scene.
According to the eyewitness, Fields, who had a handgun, shot at the businessman, who returned fire and shot Fields in the neck, killing him almost instantly.
The body remained at the scene for about an hour and a half until the Crime Scene Investigators completed their examination of the corpse and checking the area. Police recovered an unlicensed .32 Taurus revolver with five matching rounds as well as a bullet casing.
A taxi driver, who had taken the businessman to the store, suggested that the robbers had trailed them from the bank. He was taken to the Kitty Police Station to give a statement.
Police, in a press statement said that around 12:00h yesterday the businessman went to Ramchand’s Auto Spares store at 51 Sheriff & Duncan Streets to transact business, when a man armed with a firearm entered and took away a bag containing $1.7M from the businessman.
”The armed man ran outside towards a motor cycle that was being ridden by an accomplice, pursued by the businessman” the police said.
”The armed man discharged a round at the businessman, who is a licensed firearm holder, the man returned fire hitting the armed man to his neck…His accomplice managed to escape.
The bag with the money was recovered and an unlicensed .32 Taurus revolver with five rounds and a spent shell has been recovered.”
Fields’s Facebook page shows him posing regularly with loads of cash and jewellery and firearms. He was also photographed with a firearm licence. There were also several photos with him posing with a young man who appeared to be bound and tied, with his face down.
Agricola residents yesterday alleged that Fields was part of a gang that rained terror on residents in the area. One resident told Kaieteur News that to “show loyalty” to the gang, Fields had shot off part of his left index finger.
Kaieteur News was told that although Fields came from a relatively decent family, he would continuously follow the “wrong company”.
This newspaper understands that Fields recently purchased a motorcycle. Several persons within the Agricola community said that he was fingered in numerous robberies in and around Georgetown.
Back in May, 19-year-old Lloyd Hazel (Junior) was another gunman who was shot dead after he and an accomplice snatched a bag of cash from employees of a Main Street store.
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