POLICE have identified a possible suspect in the October 25, 2016 robbery and shooting of B.M. Soat manager Rameez Mohammed.

This suspect was identified after being held with three other suspects following an attempted robbery and high-speed chase in Georgetown on Monday.

Reports reveal that the 28-year-old Mohammed was leaving his office at B.M. Soat Auto Sales on Croal Street, Georgetown when he was accosted by a lone bandit. When the individual attempted to take Mohammed’s bag, which contained the day’s earnings, a scuffle ensued and the bandit pulled out a gun and shot him in the left thigh. The bandit then made good his escape on a CG motorcycle ridden by an accomplice who had been waiting for him.

Last Monday, two policemen on a motorcycle chased down a “suspicious” car, and later arrested one of their former colleagues along with two other men after the vehicle in which they were travelling ended up in a ditch at Lamaha and Republic streets in Newtown, Georgetown.

Police recovered a 9mm Taurus pistol and 10 live rounds in the silver grey Toyota Premio which bore the fake registration number HB 7412. The original registration number of the car is HC 7294.

Police found a number of other fake number plates in the vehicle. The trio, two of whom are brothers, all hail from the East Coast of Demerara, police have said.