Three arrested for questioning, ID parade

‘A’ DIVISION police have arrested three men to assist them in their investigations into two separate shooting incidents on Monday night at Sophia North and on Eping Avenue, Bel Air Park.

On Monday, Marvin Cumbermack was robbed of his motorcycle and shot dead by a bandit, who made off with the bike as he lay on the roadway. Yesterday, the police confirmed that they were able to arrest three persons who will be assisting them in their investigations.
The men will be part of an identification parade today to ascertain if any of them were involved in the two shootings on Monday night.
Following the robbery and gunning down of Cumbermack, who had moments before dropped his fiancée off at her home, the police were called to yet another shooting, where Kwame Smith was shot in the neck on Eping Avenue.
There was speculation that the same person who shot Cumbermack and took his motorcycle away was the same person who shot Smith on Eping Avenue. It is not clear if the two shootings are related but the police are conducting intelligence gathering exercises into the incidents.
At the scene on Monday night at the back of Sophia, persons were openly expressing their dissatisfaction and disapproval with the number of gun-related crimes plaguing the country.
The parents of the man’s girlfriend could not control their anger and outburst after seeing the manner in which the man died. They all agreed that he was a hard working young man who never got on the ‘wrong side’ of anyone.
The Guyana Chronicle was informed that the bandit who approached the man wrestled with him for the motorcycle and after meeting with resistance he shot him and escaped with the bike, leaving the man bleeding to death.
A Georgetown Public Hospital ambulance which responded to the scene picked up the man, placed him in the vehicle but later took him out of the ambulance and left the scene. Persons in the area said that the man was still gasping for breath when the ambulance staff left him at the location.

(By Leroy Smith)