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Jul 13, 2013 News
The suspected gunman who was shot on Thursday by police who forestalled a robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Coldingen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) is seeking to distance himself from his two acquaintances who were nabbed with a Keltec 9mm. sub-machine gun and a .38 revolver.
With both his hands handcuffed to a bed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Odinga Allen of Brusche Dam, Buxton, East Coast Demerara said that he was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
The 23-year-old who is under police custody and is nursing a gunshot wound to his right foot at the hospital said that he only went to the Chinese restaurant to purchase an XL energy drink.
“I don’t know those men. That restaurant is a popular restaurant and I only had $500 so I went in and buy the XL and I sit down and then I see police come in and start shoot up,” the suspected gunman said.
Allen said he is a porter, working on a truck “somewhere” on the West Bank Demerara. He claimed that he cannot remember anything about his employer.
According to reports, the police had received information that the three men, Allen, Elroy Newton, a former army corporal of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara and Leon Howard were planning to rob the restaurant’s owners.
Before the men could have carried out their act, police arrived and spoiled their plan. Allen was shot after he reportedly opened fire on ranks. Police managed to capture his two other accomplices.
Kaieteur News confirmed that Allen and Newton were previously charged on different occasions with robbery under arms.
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