A man is in police custody following an armed robbery at about 15:00hrs on Tuesday. Police responded to a report of larceny of a gold chain at Republic Park, East Bank Demerara, committed on Ingrid Brown, 60, an overseas based Guyanese, and subsequently confronted the suspect, Aris Browne, also of Republic Park.
He attacked the ranks with a knife when they tried to arrest him in a shop on Eccles Access Road and he was shot in the foot.

He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted under guard.