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Aug 26, 2009 News
One man was shot dead and two others seriously wounded under controversial circumstances, following the theft of several bicycles early yesterday morning from the Crescent Cycle Store in King Street.
Mark Edwards, 33, of, Robb Street, Bourda, was shot in the face, chest and left side at around 02:00 hrs, and succumbed at around 08:00 hrs at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Police identified the other injured men as Nobert Bajnauth, 31, of Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara, who was shot in the left leg, back and abdomen, and Neville Mahase, 43, of Alexander Village, who was shot in the left side chest.
They have been admitted to the Georgetown Hospital.
Kaieteur News confirmed that all three men had criminal records. Edwards was recently before the courts on a burglary charge while Mahase, a deportee, was released some months ago from prison.
Police sources alleged that the men were slain during a confrontation with police ranks at the scene of the robbery.
According to the source, the three ranks who were involved in the confrontation alleged that the suspects had shot at them.
Kaieteur News understands that the ranks claimed that they recovered three cutlasses and house-breaking implements at the scene.
However, no firearm was recovered from the slain men. Six stolen bicycles were also recovered, but 32 others remain missing.
Police sources also confirmed that the ranks are being questioned about the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
Relatives of Mark Edwards told Kaieteur News that one of the wounded men alleged that the occupant of a white car shot the three of them before the police arrived on the scene.
They added that the man alleged that the police ranks also shot the wounded Edwards, although he had surrendered.
According to the relatives, the man denied that he and Edwards were involved in the burglary, and claimed they were merely riding past the area at the time.
Crescent Cycle Store proprietor Stanley Paul said that the burglars gained entry to his store by cutting through about eight padlocks at the entrance. He estimated his losses at $513,000.
Paul told this newspaper that he was awoken early yesterday morning by a party of policemen who informed him that his store had been broken into.
The man said when he arrived at his establishment, a security guard who works in the vicinity told him that she noticed about eight men riding to and from the store on bicycles which were still wrapped in plastic.
Paul said another man on the scene summoned the police after he, too, noticed the men with the bicycles.
The businessman said he was informed that one of the men was shot in a nearby alley, and the other two outside a Robb Street night spot near his business place.
“I am sorry that one of the men had to die, but all I want is to find out where the rest of the cycles are and who put them up to it,” Paul said.
He added that given the amount of cycles which were removed from the store the men would have had to have spent a lengthy time in the building.
“When police arrived on the scene they found two nippers not far from the building and about eight padlocks which we used to secure the building,” Paul recollected.
The businessman lamented that he had stocked up on bicycles in anticipation of making a profit during the upcoming school term.
Mr. Paul disclosed that he opened his cycle store about seven months ago, which was already burglarized twice before.
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