Lone gunman robs two, shoots one at wash bay on Mandela Avenue

ONE of two persons who were at a wash bay at Mandela Avenue, Georgetown was shot and injured when a gunman pounced on them during an armed robbery.Fenton Duncan, 48, of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, was shot and injured by a bandit who escaped with his licensed firearm. He is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Police reported that at about 12:25 hrs on December 03, 2013, Fenton Duncan and Sherry Ramroop, 38, of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, were at a car wash on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown when they were held up by a man armed with a handgun.
The perpetrator took away the personal jewellery of the two victims; and when Fenton Duncan, a licensed firearm holder, retaliated, the armed man shot him to his abdomen and relieved him of his firearm before escaping.

(Michel Outridge)

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