A businessman is now hospitalised after he was shot in an attempted robbery at his city store yesterday.
Inshan Ally, of Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara, was shot around 4:05pm when two men, one of them armed, entered the Style Palace General Store on King Street, Georgetown and demanded cash from Ally’s wife, Rakeema Ally.
However, instead of handing over any money the woman pulled out a cutlass while her husband reached for his licensed firearm and in return the armed bandit shot the businessman to the left side of his abdomen. It is unclear whether the wounded man fired any shots of his own.
The gunmen managed to escape and the shot man was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Shortly after the shooting, ranks from both the Guyana Defence Force and Guyana Police Force were on the scene investigating. Plainclothes detectives were also noticed about a corner away.
At the hospital, a relative of Ally was tightlipped but stated that the injured man was doing well. A hospital source also said the same and stated that the shot man had been well enough to walk around the hospital’s compound and had not been immediately taken into the surgery.
The man was being attended to by doctors when this newspaper visited.
