RAFAEL Jordan, 21, of Prince William Street, Plaisance, who was shot during Police efforts to arrest him Thursday, died at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) about 01:40 h Friday morning, while receiving treatment.

Police said he suffered injury to his right thigh at Victoria Road, Plaisance, after he had been identified as the man who chopped and robbed a teenager at about 13:00h on Plaisance Railway Embankment.

The victim, a 17-year-old student of Plaisance Community High School, was relieved of a cell-phone during the cutlass attack and reported the robbery to the Sparendaam Police Station, also on East Coast Demerara.

Police said, when he was taken to the GPH, another victim fingered Jordan as one of two persons who had robbed him, at gunpoint, of $150,000, on said Victoria Road, Plaisance, in November last year and the report was under investigation.

Meanwhile, at his home yesterday, relatives expressed anger over the way Jordan met his death, after he had successful surgery Thursday night and was conscious.

They said when Jordan was shot, the Police kept him in a vehicle for several hours before taking him to the GPH for medical attention, and that he succumbed because of their negligence.

According to them, he was severely beaten for the November 2009 robbery, although he had been residing in Barbados then and showed his passport to the Sparendaam Police.
They maintained he was not a thief.