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Nov 21, 2012 News
Police sources revealed last night that they have nabbed the bandits who shot Kaieteur News staffer Shaum Persaud last Sunday morning and stole his motorcycle.
One source told Kaieteur News yesterday that investigators have detained two young men who have confessed to shooting Persaud. An official said that the CG motorcycle, CF4664, has also been recovered.
Charges are likely within a few days.
During the investigation, detectives also nabbed a third suspect in connection with the theft of another motorcycle.
Persaud, an office assistant, was shot in the left thigh at around 10:30 hrs on Sunday while sitting in a Broad Street, Charlestown beer garden. The robbers also relieved him of a pouch containing his driver’s licence.
Persaud had related that he was on his way home when a friend invited him to take “a drink” at the beer garden.
He wheeled his motorcycle into the shop and was having a drink when two youths rode into the beer garden on a motorcycle and immediately began assaulting him while demanding the keys for his bike.
Persaud estimates that the attackers were both in their teens.
He said that one of the men began to hit him with a gun while the other relieved him of the keys for the motorcycle along with his pouch.
Despite being gun-butted, the father of two said that he tried to prevent the robbers from making off with his motorcycle.
Persaud recounted that this angered the robbers and one of them shot him in the left thigh. They then escaped with his motorcycle.
Other patrons at the beer garden took the injured man to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
His left thigh was broken by the bullet’s impact but his condition is listed as stable.
Detectives retrieved a 9mm warhead and a bullet casing from the scene.
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