A bandit will now lose sight in his left eye and another one is on the run after an early morning shootout with the police yesterday in Grove following a robbery.
According to a police press release, at around 3 am, Cheryl Embrack, 50, of Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was entering her home when she was attacked by two men and held at gunpoint by one of the men who was armed. The men carried her into the house and took away a stereo set and a cellular phone. During the robbery, residents reacted to the commotion and alerted the police who responded and came under fire from one of the perpetrators as they were leaving the scene. The police returned fire, hitting one of the men to his eye and leg. The man was then rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was identified as Devon Forde, 21, of Stevedore Housing Scheme. A .32 pistol and 10 matching rounds were recovered on the scene. The accomplice managed to escape.
“We saw the two guys earlier and we noticed they were strangers but we thought they were in the area to catch birds,” a resident told Stabroek News yesterday. He said that the presence of the two strangers in the area didn’t raise any suspicions as persons would frequently visit the area to