POLICE have charged two men in connection with the recent burglary at Crescent Cycle Store, in King Street, Georgetown, after which one man was shot dead and two others wounded.

Before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday, Norbert Baijnauth, 31, of Lot 45 Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara and Neville Mahase, 43, of Lot 65 First Street, Alexander Village, pleaded not guilty to a joint charge of break and enter and larceny.

Particulars of the offence said, between August 24 and 25, they broke and entered the store owned by Stanley Paul and stole 38 bicycles valued $528,000.

Police Corporal Munilall Seetaram, prosecuting, said five of the bikes were recovered.

He said there was a shooting in the vicinity where Baijnauth and Mahase returned fire on the Police and one man died in the exchange.

The dead man is Mark Heywood also known as Mark King, 35, of Lot 69 Robb Street, also in the city.

Baijnauth and Mahase were remanded to prison until September 4.