Georgetown – At around 8AM today, a man armed with a firearm confronted sales clerk Mathura Narine,as he was about to enter his work place at Narine’s Trading, Regent Road, Bourda.
The armed man discharged a round which caused Mathura Narine to drop a haversack that contained his lunch, a cell phone and $700.00. The perpetrator then picked up the haversack and ran away.
Ranks of a mobile police patrol, who were alerted at the sound of the shot, responded and gave chase behind the perpetrator who was caught in a yard at Church and New Garden Streets.An unlicensed .38 revolver with two live rounds and one spent shell was recovered by the police.
The man is in police custody and will be charged shortly.
