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POLICE have arrested one person and is grilling him in connection with the robbery and murder of Aga Khan and the injury of 22 year old Marvin Marcus.
Meanwhile 22-year old Marvin Marcus is said to be in a better condition that when he was admitted at the hospital on Tuesday evening. His father who spoke with the Guyana chronicle on Tuesday evening said that his son was shot in the right arm and the bullet was lodged in his side. Fifty-seven year old Aga Khan of Lot 20 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara was shot and killed when four armed bandits attacked him and others in a truck he was driving late Tuesday afternoon.
Reports reaching the Guyana Chronicle are that at about 18:30 hours, Khan and two others who operated the delivery vehicle GJJ 2806 for Edun Chicken Farm at Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara were returning to their place of employment with the day’s takings when they were pounced upon by the bandits.
They had just turned off the East Bank Demerara highway into Buzz Bee Dam when the robbers confronted them, said an unnamed eyewitness, who claimed to have seen what happened.
He said the driver was forced to slow the vehicle down, and two of the four attackers jumped on either side of the vehicle.
Realising that they were about to be robbed, Khan attempted to evade the quartet but the man who was on the driver’s side managed to pull the steering wheel and put the truck out of control.
The driver was shot in the neck when he tried to retake control, the bullet exiting at the back thereof. One of the other employees on the truck was also wounded by gunfire, the eyewitness related.
At the Diamond Diagnostic Hospital on East Bank of Demerara, the compound was packed with relatives, fellow workers and friends of the victims on Tuesday evening.
Relatives of porter Marvin Marcus, 22, anxiously awaited from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) word on the injury Marcus received from a shot that was lodged in his side.
Police visited the scene of the shooting, and combed the area for evidence, as the truck remained parked there. One policeman did not rule out the possibility of the robbery being a set-up, but said phone records will be checked to ascertain some of the last persons with whom the men on the truck had been in contact.
Eyewitnesses said that following the robbery, the robbers left the area, walking calmly through a nearby street and into another village with the bag containing the stolen cash of an unknown amount.
Residents in the vicinity said robberies occurring at that particular junction are often committed by cyclists.
Police investigations into the Tuesday incident are continuing.
Meanwhile 22-year old Marvin Marcus is said to be in a better condition that when he was admitted at the hospital on Tuesday evening. His father who spoke with the Guyana chronicle on Tuesday evening said that his son was shot in the right arm and the bullet was lodged in his side. Fifty-seven year old Aga Khan of Lot 20 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara was shot and killed when four armed bandits attacked him and others in a truck he was driving late Tuesday afternoon.
Reports reaching the Guyana Chronicle are that at about 18:30 hours, Khan and two others who operated the delivery vehicle GJJ 2806 for Edun Chicken Farm at Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara were returning to their place of employment with the day’s takings when they were pounced upon by the bandits.
They had just turned off the East Bank Demerara highway into Buzz Bee Dam when the robbers confronted them, said an unnamed eyewitness, who claimed to have seen what happened.
He said the driver was forced to slow the vehicle down, and two of the four attackers jumped on either side of the vehicle.
Realising that they were about to be robbed, Khan attempted to evade the quartet but the man who was on the driver’s side managed to pull the steering wheel and put the truck out of control.
The driver was shot in the neck when he tried to retake control, the bullet exiting at the back thereof. One of the other employees on the truck was also wounded by gunfire, the eyewitness related.
At the Diamond Diagnostic Hospital on East Bank of Demerara, the compound was packed with relatives, fellow workers and friends of the victims on Tuesday evening.
Relatives of porter Marvin Marcus, 22, anxiously awaited from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) word on the injury Marcus received from a shot that was lodged in his side.
Police visited the scene of the shooting, and combed the area for evidence, as the truck remained parked there. One policeman did not rule out the possibility of the robbery being a set-up, but said phone records will be checked to ascertain some of the last persons with whom the men on the truck had been in contact.
Eyewitnesses said that following the robbery, the robbers left the area, walking calmly through a nearby street and into another village with the bag containing the stolen cash of an unknown amount.
Residents in the vicinity said robberies occurring at that particular junction are often committed by cyclists.
Police investigations into the Tuesday incident are continuing.
