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Sep 21, 2014 News
Senior police officials were last night grilling a police constable who allegedly killed an unarmed man who had reportedly assaulted a female rank in Hill Street, Albouystown.
Police sources confirmed that Adrian Bishop, said to be about 28, was shot in the right side of his neck around 17.30 hrs in the vicinity of Hill Street and Punt Trench Dam, Albouystown.
At the time Bishop, who had a lengthy criminal record ranging from carjacking, assault and armed robbery, was sitting in a police minibus in which the arresting ranks had placed him.
The sources confirmed that Bishop was unarmed, while the police constable, who is seconded to the Brickdam Police Station, was armed with a shotgun.
Albouystown residents and police sources confirmed that Bishop, who is said to be from Campbellville, had struck a policewoman with a bottle a few minutes before he was slain. Some residents alleged that the female rank is a former girlfriend of Bishop’s.
Kaieteur News was told that the injured policewoman made a report at the Brickdam Police Station. She then accompanied about three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pitbull bus.”
According to some residents, Bishop was walking south along Hill Street towards Punt Trench Dam when the policemen arrived.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the ranks began to assault the unarmed Bishop before forcing him into the police vehicle.
They alleged that while Bishop was sitting in the bus, a policeman, who was outside the vehicle, pushed a shotgun through one of the windows and shot Bishop.
Eyewitnesses claimed that immediately after, the apparently confused rank walked towards Punt Trench Dam and threw down his weapon.
Some angry residents hurled missiles at the vehicle, but the policeman’s colleagues retrieved the firearm and drove to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where Bishop was pronounced dead.
Bishop and two others had appeared in court a few weeks ago for allegedly hijacking a businessman’s car in Cross Street, Alexander Village, Georgetown. They were released on $100,000 bail each.
In August, Bishop was remanded for allegedly robbing Marlon Henry at gunpoint of a motor scooter and other items.
In May, 2008, Bishop was charged with robbing Lester Simon and Kenrick Lawson, respectively, of their cars at gunpoint
Police allege that Bishop was in the habit of resisting arrest.
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