FOUR men armed with handguns entered the Andrew’s Supermarket on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt Saturday night and robbed the proprietor Saikque Andrews.During the course of the robbery, a member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was hit by a round when the bandits opened fire.
During the robbery, the proprietor was held at gunpoint, as the men blocked the entrance and exit of the supermarket sometime around 21:00hrs.
Police say that the men held up the proprietor, 39-year-old Saikque Andrews and took away his jewellery and cell phone.
The GDF rank, identified as Fayne George, 28, of De Kinderen Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara was shot in his right leg. He was listed as being in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The owner and management team of the supermarket were unavailable for comment yesterday, while only relatives were allowed to visit the GDF rank in hospital.
The supermarket has been in operation for several years, and in addition to providing groceries, the location also has a money transfer service.
The Andrews Supermarket had been robbed several times before. Last January, three bandits terrorised customers and staff. The men escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash. On that occasion a grey Toyota 212 pulled up in front of the establishment and three masked men armed with “big guns” rushed inside the entity.
The men then emptied the cash registers and relieved customers of their cellular phones and other valuables before making good their escape.