Nicholas James, who police believe was one of the two men who robbed Choke’s Gas Station, at Kersaint Park, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara on Sunday, is now a patient under the guard after seeking treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) for a gunshot wound.
Police suspect that James was wounded during the robbery, in which Marvin King, 36, was fatally shot by the owner of the station, who confronted two bandits.
In a statement on the fatal robbery yesterday, police said two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, drove up on a motorcycle to the gas station and held up pump attendant Tiffany Hunte. However, the men were confronted by the owner of the gas station, a licensed firearm holder, and one of the two men was shot to his abdomen. King, whose last known address was Better Hope Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, was later found lying next to the motorcycle on the Railway Embankment at La Bonne Intention.
He was taken to the GPH, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. “His accomplice, believed to be James, escaped,” police added.
King was found on the Railway Embankment, clad only in his boxer shorts, with his shirt used to form a bandage around his wound. Residents and police combed LBI and its environs in search of the second man as they believed that he too was injured. When Stabroek News visited James at the GPH, he was guarded by a police and was unable to speak. Police had also returned an empty money bag to the gas station owner. It was unclear how much money was inside as the attendant had not balanced sales for the evening.
