Rockliffe Rodrigues, 25, of Aranaputa Valley, Annai, is a patient under police guard at Lethem Hospital nursing a gunshot wound after he was shot by the police.

Police reported that at about 03:30 h on Wednesday, ranks went to the home of Rodrigues, who was wanted pending investigations into a report of break and enter and larceny committed on a shop at Aranaputa Valley on January 27, 2010, and for whom an arrest warrant had been issued by the court during May, 2009, in relation to a matter where he had been charged for assaulting a policeman.

After being arrested, Rodrigues assaulted the policeman and attempted to escape from lawful custody when he was shot in his left leg by the rank.

Meanwhile, in a separate incident, Sarjoodin Jewdhan, 63, of Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder, Berbice, who is the victim of an armed robbery, is a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital after he was shot. .

At about 19:20 h Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Jewdhan was robbed by two masked gunmen.

Police reported that Jewdhan was closing his liquor shop when the two men entered and held him up. They took away an undisclosed sum of money from a drawer and a quantity of jewellery from a bedroom upstairs in the home and escaped. As they were leaving, one of the men shot Jewdhan in his foot