Georgetown : At about 4:00 a.m. today, police ranks responded to a report of a robbery in progress at the home of Arlene Mc Lean, 47 years, of Pioneer Lane, South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown.
Four men, three of whom were armed with firearms, had broken into the home and held up Arlene Mc Lean and her sister Ann Marie Mc Lean and took away a sum of cash and a cell phone.
On arrival at the scene the police came under fire from the perpetrators who were leaving the building at the time and returned fire. During the armed confrontation two of the men who were pursued by the police ran into a yard at Reliance Place, South Ruimveldt Park, and took cover behind a water tank from where they continued to engage the police.
During the exchange of gunfire they were shot by the police and later pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The police say one has been identified as Agard Blackman of Tuc-Ville, Georgetown, while the other man is so far unidentified.
The other two men escaped.
The police recovered an unlicensed 9mm. Luger pistol with 3 matching rounds and an unlicensed .38 revolver with 4 matching rounds and 2 spent shells from the perpetrators.
Investigations are in progress.
