By Michel Outridge
Police early yesterday morning surprised a gang of men who reportedly broke into Crescent Cycle Store on Robb and King Streets, Georgetown, and shot and killed one of them during a shoot-out.
Dead is Mark Heywood, 35, of Robb and Cummings Street, also in the city.
Relatives
of Mark Heywood at his home yesterday.
Relatives
said Heywood worked as a labourer for the vendors in
the area and when they received the news, they visited
the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and were told
that “he gone home”.
Heywood’s sister Debbie told the Guyana Chronicle that he had several brushes with the law and they were unsure of his whereabouts yesterday morning.
Crescent
Cycle Store where the break-in occurred
Meanwhile,
the GPH said that at 02:10h yesterday Norbert
Baijnauth 31, of 45 Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara;
Mark Heywood, of Robb and Cummings Streets, and
Neville Mahase, 43, of 63 First Street, Alexander
Village arrived at the Accident and Emergency Unit
following a shooting incident with the police at Robb
and King Streets.
Baijnauth sustained gunshot wounds to his back and abdomen, Heywood sustained a gunshot wound to his face, and Mahase sustained a gun-shot wound to his chest.
Thirty four bicycles
missing
Meanwhile,
Police reported yesterday that at about 01:00h a party
of policemen in Georgetown acted on information
pertaining to a breakage being committed on the
Crescent Cycle Store, King Street, Lacytown,
Georgetown, owned by Stanley Paul of Charlotte Street,
Georgetown.
The
ranks proceeded to the store where four men were
exiting the building on cycles and were called upon to
halt, but continued riding away. A chase ensued
and the suspects were cornered on Robb Street.
It
is alleged that one of the suspects, armed with a gun,
discharged the firearm twice at the police who
returned fire hitting three of them, while the other
made good his escape, leaving his booty.
Police
said five bicycles and four cutlasses were found at
the scene.
The owner of the store subsequently checked his store and observed thirty four bicycles missing.
Wednesday,
August 26, 2009