ANOTHER shot airport robbery suspect was yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned before city magistrate Ann McLennan for discharging a loaded firearm and being in possession of a gun and ammunition.Colace Collinson, a 23-year-old miner of Lot 148 South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara is suspected of being part of a crew trailing travellers from the airport into the city. He was shot after a confrontation with the police.
According to the charge, Collinson while being in Kitty in the company of others on October 7, discharged a loaded firearm at off-duty police officer Prim Narine.
It is also alleged that he was found with a .32 revolver with three live matching rounds. He denied all the charges and was remanded to prison until October 28.
Last Wednesday, Shawn Thom, 37-year-old taxi driver of 138 Third Street, Alberttown, appeared before the Chief Magistrate on a similar charge and had to be assisted into court by officers. He was shot to his right foot. He also denied the allegation and was remanded to prison.
According to reports, policeman Narine was escorting his family from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport when he noticed a suspicious car trailing him and alerted ranks at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Then as Narine, a Kitty resident, pulled into his driveway he saw the suspect’s car parked a short distance away in a dark corner. The CID ranks and Narine were approaching the hire car when Thom allegedly opened fire at the lawmen who returned fire, wounding the suspect in his right foot. Though they disarmed him he managed to escape. However he was later nabbed in a house at Tucber Park, New Amsterdam, Berbice while being treated by a woman for a gunshot wound.