Two men on a CG motorcycle yesterday afternoon robbed an RK’s security vehicle of a bag of cash and shot one of the security guards.
The guard was shot four times on East and Middle streets and his vehicle was robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash just after they had collected it from the Dr Balwant Singh Hospital.
Garvin Trotman, 27, of Enmore, East Coast Demerara, is now admitted at the Dr Balwant Singh Hospital where he is being treated for four gunshot wounds about his body. Trotman’s wife told Stabroek News yesterday that while he was shot twice in his right shoulder, once in his left, and once to his side, he was stable and in a conscious state but the doctors were unable to comment on the severity of the injuries.
“The whole thing just look fishy, fishy. I don’t understand how two security guards, supposedly trained, armed security guards could get ketch in such a stupid robbery. It was like a whole movie scene,” an eyewitness told Stabroek News yesterday. He said Trotman and another security guard who works for RK’s Security Service had collected a bag from the hospital, around 1:30PM yesterday which he assumed was a bag of money. “I don’t know if these men (the bandits) knew that they were supposed to collect this bag today but as soon as the car pull off two men riding on a CG motorcycle pull up by the driver window and just start firing shots.
As soon as I hear duh I run and hide in a corner,” he said. “I thought the driver dead cause the car slow down and started rolling over the corner,” he added, stating that after the shots were fired the car slowly drove over Middle Street and stopped at the corner.
“This is the part I don’t understand. It wasn’t one man in the vehicle, it was two of them and both of them had guns and the other one ain’t even think about firing back,” he said, explaining that after the vehicle stopped at the corner, the two men turned Middle Street, parked the motorcycle and one of them casually walked over to the vehicle, retrieved the bag of cash and then casually walked over to the motorcycle and escaped.
After the two men rode off on the motorcycle Trotman exited the vehicle and ran to the hospital. “I don’t know what happen to the other man but he said that it happen so fast he didn’t even know what happen and that the men seem professional but what I saying is that them man turn they back on the car and walk back to their bike and he didn’t shoot back,” the eyewitness added.
Other eyewitnesses expressed bewilderment about the entire incident as they said the other guard could have at least tried to prevent the men from escaping and taking the bag of money.
RK’s official, Rosh Khan, told Stabroek News that he had no comment as he does not understand the entire situation fully and the matter is in the hands of the police.
