Shawn Daniels, 21, a private stationed at Camp Ayanganna , is now
a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital
nursing a gunshot wound to his head. Up to press time he was
unconscious.
The police said that the private sustained the gunshot
wound when he and two others allegedly robbed a goldsmith at around
midday yesterday at Meadow Brook Drive .
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Daniels was shot by Budhnarine
Jagernauth, called ‘Fat Man', 38, the goldsmith whose Lot 161
Meadow Brook Drive establishment the suspects had attacked.
Chief of Staff, Edward Collins, told Kaieteur News yesterday that Daniels, of 54
D'Urban Street , Lodge, would be interdicted from duty once the army
confirms that he was involved in the robbery.
He added that if ranks are involved in criminal activities the
army does not take its people into its custody, choosing instead to
let them feel the full force of the law.
Reports state that the men, one of whom was armed with a handgun
and another with a knife, robbed Jagernauth of quantity of gold
jewellery and raw gold, and $140,000.
According to reports, Jagernauth was alone in the jewellery
establishment when one of the men entered, enquired about cleaning
some jewellery and left.
A police press release stated that as he was leaving, the man
with the firearm entered and held the goldsmith at gunpoint and
ordered him to lie on the floor. He then demanded cash and
jewellery.
The man who enquired about cleaning jewellery and another bandit
then came in and took away a quantity of gold jewellery and raw gold
and fled.
As they were making their escape, Daniels, who was armed,
discharged several rounds at Jagernauth who had come out of his
establishment in pursuit of the men.
The goldsmith returned fire and struck Daniels in his head but
that did not stop the soldier from running away, leaving a train of
blood in his wake. The two had by this time gone in the opposite
direction but to their misfortune they ran into a police patrol that
was operating in the area. They were arrested while trying to escape
along the roadway. Daniels was found in a clump of bushes with the
gunshot injury to his head, apparently having collapsed from a loss
of blood. The police have not recovered the firearm.
The other two had come on a bicycle but fled, leaving the cycle
just outside the fence of the victim's operation but they took with
them a bag containing the loot they had removed from the jewellery
establishment.
The police quickly cordoned off the area. They later reported
that they had recovered some of the stolen jewellery.
A press release from the army stated that Private Daniels is
under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital while the
others are in police custody assisting with investigations into the
alleged robbery.
This newspaper understands that members of the GDF visited the
scene of the crime yesterday afternoon and subsequently went to the
police station to talk to Jagernauth.
Shirley Carreiro, who lives in the same yard with Jagernauth's
shop, said that the robbery victim is her son-in-law's brother.
She said that her son-in-law and the victim would operate the
shop but at the time of the robbery Jagernauth was alone.
Carreiro added that the bandits were unmasked.
Investigations are continuing.
Sunday
07-08-2007
