Gunshots rang out as bandits on a spree wounded a 16-year-old boy in his left thigh while robbing him at Freeman Street, East La Penitence last night.
Roy Stanton of Freeman Street was undergoing treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital up to press time for the wound.
Reports are at just around 10:30 pm Stanton and two friends were chatting outside their homes when a man on a bicycle pointed to them and rode off.
The man was followed by three others, all on bicycles and the three quickly disembarked and proceeded to rob the three youngsters.
Ryan Canterbury, who along with Joel Myers and Stanton were chatting recounted that the men quickly moved to them, pulled out their handguns and ordered them to hand over everything.
While Canterbury and Myers compiled, Stanton resisted and was shot once in his left thigh by one of the bandits.
The same bandit also discharged a shot towards one of the occupants of the home as he approached them, but the bullet missed.
Canterbury and Myers in recounting the incident to Stabroek News stated that all three of the men who robbed them were armed with handguns.
Canterbury was relieved of his cellular phone and money while the robbers took away Myers’s bicycle. The bandits left behind one of the bicycles they had been riding.
While this newspaper was at the scene, the police had not yet arrived but subsequently did and proceeded to carry out their investigations. During this time too, another man arrived and said that the bandits attempted to rob him but he pulled out his “blade” and they rode away.
There were reports of others in the street also being robbed by the bicycle bandits and residents said that robbers using a similar modus operandi had struck on Sunday and Monday night.
