Police and two wanted men on Monday morning traded gunshots in Tucville and when the shooting subsided it was found that one of the gunmen had sustained wounds to his foot and mouth, while the other escaped.
In a press release yesterday police said that about 2 am on Monday ranks responded to a report of gunshots being discharged at Tucville Squatting Area, Georgetown. Upon arrival at the scene there was an exchange of gunfire between the police and two men who were in an abandoned building in the area. During the armed confrontation one of the men, Junior Bourne called `Glamorous’, 28 years, was shot in his left foot and mouth. The other man, who is suspected to have been hit also, managed to escape by jumping over a fence, the police statement said. Bourne, the police said and the man who escaped, but who has been identified, are wanted by the police for questioning in a number of robberies. Bourne was admitted under guard to the Georgetown Hospital.