East Coast Demerara : A businesswoman is nursing a gunshot wound at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) while two bandits were shot dead in a daring robbery last night at a supermarket.
According to a police report last night, at about 7pm yesterday two men armed with firearms entered the Lahago General Store at Montrose, East Coast Demerara, and held up the owner Latchmie Baburam, 52 years, of Montrose. The perpetrators took away $140,000.00 from Latchmie Baburam during which she was shot and wounded to her left foot.
Public spirited members of the community and police ranks who responded quickly to the report confronted the perpetrators during which there was an armed confrontation and the two suspects were fatally shot. Two unlicensed .32 Taurus pistols with five rounds were recovered by the police along with a number of .32 spent shells.
Dead are wanted cop Warren Blue and an unidentified man of East Indian decent.
One of the suspects has been identified as Warren Blue while the other man of East Indian descent is so far unidentified. The bodies are at the Lyken Funeral Parlour.
Latchmie Baburam has been admitted to the GPHC as the investigations continue.
