A BANDIT who was part of a gang of persons who were gunned down in neighbouring Suriname on Saturday last has been identified as Guyanese national Rodwell Wiggins.Wiggins is said to be attached to a Georgetown taxi service, but persons at the entity informed that the 31-year old man was never employed there.
He was killed after Surinamese police in the resort Geyersvlijt responded to a report of a robbery at a supermarket on the Anamoestraat. According to a Surinamese New report, the shopkeeper and his partner told the lawmen that four armed men came into the supermarket and overpowered them; two of the men were masked. The shopkeeper and his wife, Knevelden then shouted for help.
A neighbour, who heard, saw the robbers fleeing the scene with their booty. The criminals fled the area and ran into the forest. The robbers opened fire on members of the Regional Assistance Team Paramaribo who had arrived in the meantime.
There was an encounter with the police and the four robbers were cornered and shot. Three of them died and the fourth criminal was transported by ambulance to the Academic Hospital in Paramaribo, where he has been admitted.
Surinamese sources disclosed that the gang consisted of Guyanese, Jamaicans and a Surinamese.
Police visited the homes of those gang members and three other persons were arrested.
