THE police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 20:30 hrs on Boxing Night at the Texaco Gas Station on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, during which Leon Bynoe, 28, of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot and injured. Investigations revealed that three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, held up pump attendant Andrea Sealey, cashier Lavern Andrews and a customer Tricia Walcott and took away an undisclosed sum of cash.
As they were escaping, the armed man discharged a round which struck Leon Bynoe, who was taking fuel for his motor cycle at the time, to his left thigh.
He has been admitted as a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).