Linden businessman Albert Joseph, called “Bolo,” who was shot during a robbery last Monday, succumbed to his injury last evening.
Joseph’s relatives received news of his death at about 7.45pm. The man was initially treated at the Linden Hospital Complex and then transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where he died yesterday.
Joseph, of 68 Sunflower Street, Wismar, Linden, had sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen on Monday, during a robbery at his store. Joseph’s daughter, Lauren, who was the cashier on duty, said the bandit entered the store brandishing a gun. At the time, she was in the cashier’s cage and Joseph was sitting in his usual position in front of the cashier’s cage. “I see the man come in the store and go straight up to Bolo and said gimme deh money,” Lauren Joseph said. “Bolo tell he he ain’t gat no money and he seh gimme wah yuh gat.” The businessman took off a gold chain he was wearing and handed it to the bandit, who demanded more. As Joseph went into his pocket, he was shot in the left side of his abdomen.
The bandit then took a cellular phone and $10,000 in cash from the businessman’s pocket and he fled.
