Berbice -Investigations are being conducted into a matter which occurred yesterday at No. 2 Village, East Canje, Berbice, where an Inspector of Police attached to the Tactical Services Unit, whose services were unlawfully secured by a businessman, went in search of a former employee who had allegedly embezzled a sum of money from him.
The Inspector who was in plain clothes at the time located the former employee,
Yadram Rooney, 30 years of Broad and Ketley Streets, Charlestown, Georgetown, at No. 2 Village and during efforts to arrest Rooney shot and injured him in the region of left arm pit after he was allegedly attacked with a piece of wood.
Yadram Rooney has been admitted a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and the police rank is under close arrest as the investigations continue.