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Nov 19, 2013 News
The wounded suspect in Sunday night’s shootout with police on Bent Street, Georgetown
says that he is not aware whether his two friends were involved in any robbery before they collected him at his home on Sunday.
Silk Mc Lean, called Arthur Nimrod, 25, of Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara was shot around 21:30 hrs by police after he and his accomplices reportedly opened fire at the ranks.
Mc Lean who is currently under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation identified his friends as “Mark and Fish.”
Police in a statement said that ranks intercepted a motorcar PPP 215 at Bent Street, while responding to a report that the vehicle was used in a robbery on the East Coast Demerara.
The release added that there was an exchange of gunfire between the police and the occupants of the motor vehicle which subsequently crashed at George Street.
The occupants subsequently escaped but it was later reported to the police that Mc Lean was at GPHC with gunshot wounds.
Yesterday, at the hospital, Mc Lean who is a former police officer said that he left home around 20:30hrs to go lime with his friends.
“Mark come for me and he bring his friend. We were drinking and driving around. We went on D’Urban Street to buy some Guinness and we left. When we reach by the NIS office, I hear a set of gunshots and I keep driving,” Mc Lean explained.
He denied opening fire on the ranks. “I didn’t know they were police until this morning (yesterday) when I saw it in the newspaper. After them shooting, I end up crashing into a post; all I know is that I run in somebody yard and then I took a taxi and went to the hospital.”
The wounded Mc Lean said that he was driving his friend’s car and is not sure whether they robbed anyone before they picked him up.
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