After robbery, bandit drowns while escaping from police

Oct 24, 2021 News

Kaieteur News – One of three bandits, who were reportedly trying to escape from police yesterday after committing a robbery at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast of Demerara (ECD), has drowned.

The bandit who drowned while escaping from police.

The suspect’s body was fished out of a canal which separates LBI from Chateau Margot around 10:45hrs.
He was identified by his mother as Shamar Charles, 22, of Plantain Walk, Triumph Village, ECD.
Kaieteur News was able to confirm that the now dead bandit and his accomplices had plunged into the canal to escape the cops. While his accomplices were able to get away, he went under and failed to resurface.
He is yet to be identified and his accomplices, who managed to evade the lawmen, are still being hunted the cops.
According to police, the bandits had reportedly invaded the LBI home of three women and robbed them of jewellery and cell phones at gunpoint.
The three men had entered their home through a door located on the bottom flat.
One of the women was at the time sitting at the dining table when she saw the men entering. She told investigators that they assaulted her and demanded that she gave them cash.
The woman said that she took off her two gold rings and handed them over to the bandits before screaming loudly.
Her screams had alerted the other women who were in the upper flat of the house and they came downstairs to see what was wrong with her.
The bandits reportedly pounced on them too and relieved one of them of her gold chain. One of the bandits also forced one of the women back upstairs at gunpoint where he demanded that she give him more valuable items.
Investigators reported that one of the victims managed to run out of the house and alert her neighbours.
After the alarm was raised, the bandits decided to escape. The victims noted that when the bandits exited, the neighbours gave chase and were able to call 911.
They said that it appeared as if a burgundy getaway car was waiting on the bandits but the driver drove away leaving them with no other option but to continue running.
A patrol car had responded to the 911 call and had backed up the neighbour’s in their chase. The bandits decided to escape by swimming across the canal but Charles went under and failed to resurface.
Kaieteur News understands that instead of continuing to the chase the accomplices, the neighbour’s decided to try and rescue Charles.
They reportedly searched the canal and retrieved him but he was motionless.
He was rushed to the C.C. Nicholson Hospital where doctors there pronounced him dead on arrival.
Police have since recovered two gold rings from his pocket, $980 and a UG student card. The gold rings and the UG student card belonged to the women he and his accomplices had robbed.

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