The owner of a Robb Street guest house early this morning shot and killed one of two bandits he said were attempting to steal his 50” flat-screen television set.
The dead bandit has been identified as Canilo Mitchell of Rahaman’s Park. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).
Patrick King, owner of Three Kings Guest House situated at 36 Robb Street, Bourda, this morning told Stabroek News he was confronted by two men when he investigated a noise and he defended himself by discharging four gun shots.
The bandits fled but one was later found lying wounded on Robb Street while the other escaped.
King told Stabroek News that at around 4am he heard “a breaking noise” and upon investigating he saw two men attempted to remove the plasma television set that was in the lobby area of the guest house.
“They had already removed one of the two padlocks and were removing the other two when I come out and catch them. One raise a crow bar as if to lash me and the other one put he hand to he waist like if to pull out something but I don’‘t know if it was a knife or gun I just fire two shots.” Joseph told this newspaper.
He said as the bandits scampered out of his guest house and ran through the passage way he fired two other shots at them and then called 911 to report the incident.
The police responded promptly and they were the ones who told King, who said he did not leave his premises until the lawmen came, that a man was lying on the street and he identified him as one of the two bandits.
The man said he suffered two break-and-enters in the ten months he has opened the doors of his guest house.
