Two armed bandits robbed a revenue collector of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown of $1.8 million and shot two persons including her City Constable escort and a vagrant at Bourda Market in Georgetown early Monday night.City Constable Aaron Henderson was shot in both legs and was admitted at a city hospital in a stable condition, while the vagrant, whose name was not given, was in a critical condition at the Georgetown Hospital up to press time.
City Council Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis told Guyana Chronicle shortly after the robbery that the constable had escorted a revenue collector to the market to collect revenues for the month from vendors, and as the two were making their way out through the gate along Orange Walk, Bourda, the bandits approached them on a CG motorcycle and robbed them of the day’s collection.
The vagrant, a woman, was lying on the pavement outside the market when she too received gunshot wounds.
“It looked like a well-orchestrated inside job,” Lewis stated. Though it has become a trend now for bandits to target markets with the more recent being a robbery of a La Penitence Market vendor last week, she said the bandits seemed to be getting accurate information since they knew the time of day, time of month and the individuals to target for the cash.
City Council has since called an emergency meeting and have made a decision to have “more detailed” security systems in place at each of its locations, the PRO said.
The matter is being investigated by police and the city constabulary.