The third suspected bandit killed in Wednesday’s “shoot-out” with police has been identified as Quincy `Mac’ Alexander of Meadow Brook Gardens and despite conflicting reports on what transpired at the Prashad Nagar site the ranks involved were praised by Police Commissioner (ag) Leroy Brumell yesterday.
“I am told that three gunmen tried to invade a man’s privacy and they were shot… But I think we should be glad that we have three less (bandits) and two (less) firearms on the road”, he told reporters following the opening ceremony of the Guyana Defence Force’s annual Officers’ Conference.
The other two have been identified as Tony Ogle, 46, called ‘Skin Teeth,’ of Albouystown and Bartica, his cousin Leon Gittens, 24, called ‘Cow,’ also of Albouystown. All three men reportedly sustained multiple gunshots during the incident.
Asked to respond to reports that there was no shoot-out Brumell told reporters “listen, what the media can do for us is to put at the front of the papers, all bandits fatiguing persons, harassing people. If persons kill and rob people you don’t hear any voice, you don’t hear any voice, if anything happen you hear the police always late and sometimes if the police respond and take actions why do we have to answer all these questions…?”
He said that people only talk when the police take action and stressed that “we want to rid this country of certain things and I wouldn’t say we would want to go about murdering people. If we catch people doing that we would deal with them”.
The commissioner noted that “every time the police confront, you hear something, they always seeing. They must tell us who doing it, they don’t tell