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Oct 10, 2015 News
– Shot accomplice assisting police
Detectives believe that they are close to finding two gunmen, who along with a third accomplice, trailed a couple from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport to their Kitty residence Wednesday night.
Their accomplice, Shawn Thom, who was shot by police during the confrontation, is providing ranks with information as it relates to the two escapees, and also about other gangs responsible for trailing and robbing incoming travelers from the airport.
A police source, who is part of the investigation, yesterday told this newspaper that detectives are currently working on the information provided by Thom.
On Wednesday night, an off-duty police rank, who had gone to the airport to pick up one of his relatives, noticed a yellow IST following him all the way from the airport.
Sensing danger, he immediately called his colleagues and informed them. This newspaper was told that police turned up close to the man’s home in Kitty and waited on him to arrive from the airport.
When the off-duty rank arrived in front his yard, the car with the men stopped at a corner away from his home. Two of the gunmen came out of the vehicle and were liming at a bridge and one remained in the car.
A source explained, “As soon as the policeman reached in front of his yard, he jumped in the police vehicle and they rush up to the guys but before they reach, the (bandits) opened fire at the police who returned fire, wounding Thom.”
The two others managed to escape, leaving a weapon behind.
According to the source, the police believe that when these bandits follow persons from the airport, they do not carry weapons with them.
In fact, police suspected that when the bandits would have already identified where the travelers live, they call on another person, who would then drop off the weapon.
He also explained that the armed bandits do not confront their victims while they are in their vehicles.
“What they do is, they wait until the people come out their vehicle to take out the suitcases then they would ambush them. After they finish, the one waiting in the car would collect them,” the police source said.
Last February, Shawn Thom and Orin David, were released from prison for the 2010 murder of Mahaica businessman, Lakhram Bishundial after a mixed jury at the Demerara Assizes found them not guilty.
Bishundial was driving his vehicle along the roadway when he observed his brother in his motor pick-up.
The siblings stopped their vehicles and were talking on the road when two men rode up on a motorcycle. The pillion rider, who was armed with a handgun, got off the motorcycle, approached the two brothers and discharged rounds at Bishundial, hitting him in his abdomen.
The armed man then grabbed a bag containing an undisclosed sum of cash from the pick-up and escaped along with his accomplice on the motorcycle. They were subsequently captured.
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