A man was fatally shot by police this morning as he attempted to escape after he snatched a woman’s handbag as she was disembarking a minibus at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara.
The man is so far unidentified. He was pronounced dead at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. Reports are that sometime after 10 this morning, the woman was disembarking a minibus at Herstelling when the thief ran up to her, grabbed her handbag and ran away. A passing police patrol was notified and chased the fleeing robber. As he attempted to cross a canal to enter the canefields, the female police officer who headed the patrol shot the man.
He was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he succumbed while undergoing treatment.
Investigations are in progress.
