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Albouystown shooting death…Cops claim Bishop was trying to take rank’s shotgun
The police rank who shot 28-year-old Adrian Bishop dead on Saturday night has reportedly been placed under close arrest, even as the Force alleged that Bishop was slain while attempting to take the constable’s shotgun.
Eyewitnesses yesterday continued to suggest that the police rank deliberately shot Bishop while the arrested man was sitting in a police vehicle.
Bishop, who had a lengthy criminal record, was being taken into custody for assaulting a policewoman, who residents claimed is a former girlfriend of the victim.
Dead: Adrian Bishop
In two separate releases, police stated that at around 20.00 hrs on Saturday, ranks of a mobile police patrol responded to a report received from a policewoman that a suspect who was wanted for robbery under arms had assaulted her in Albouystown, Georgetown.
The release stated that the ranks, accompanied by the reporter, went to Hill Street, Albouystown, where the suspect, Adrian Bishop of Garnett Street, Kitty, was pointed out to them.
“Adrian Bishop was informed of the allegation against him and was arrested and placed into the police vehicle.
While being transported to the police station he held on to a policeman who was armed with a shotgun. During the struggle between Bishop and the armed policeman in the police vehicle, Bishop made efforts to relieve the rank of the firearm, during which a round was discharged that struck him to his neck.” Bishop was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Residents told Kaieteur News that the policewoman was at a ‘fish fry’ in Hill Street, Albousytown, when Bishop threw a Guinness bottle at her. He also reportedly struck the policewoman.
Kaieteur News was told that the injured rank made a report at the Brickdam Police Station. She then accompanied about three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pitbull bus.”
According to some residents, Bishop was walking south along Hill Street towards Punt Trench Dam when the policemen arrived.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the ranks began to assault the unarmed Bishop before forcing him into the police vehicle.
They alleged that while Bishop was sitting in the bus, a policeman, who was outside the vehicle, pushed a shotgun through one of the windows and shot Bishop.
Eyewitnesses claimed that immediately after, the apparently confused rank walked towards Punt Trench Dam and threw down his weapon.
Some angry residents hurled missiles at the vehicle, but the policeman’s colleagues retrieved the firearm and drove to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where Bishop was pronounced dead.
Bishop and two others had appeared in court a few weeks ago for allegedly hijacking a businessman’s car in Cross Street, Alexander Village, Georgetown. They were released on $100,000 bail each.
In August, Bishop was remanded for allegedly robbing Marlon Henry at gunpoint of a motor scooter and other items.
In May, 2008, Bishop was charged with robbing Lester Simon and Kenrick Lawson, respectively, of their cars at gunpoint.
Police allege that Bishop was in the habit of resisting arrest.
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