Two of the three men, including a police constable who were apprehended shortly after they allegedly robbed a Tuschen Housing Scheme Chinese restaurateur earlier this month, were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with armed robbery.
Jonathan Harry, 24, a police constable attached to Special Branch, Eve Leary and Akande Ross, 20, of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara appeared before Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.
They were not required to plead to the indictable charge and were remanded to prison until February 3rd.
The duo are expected to face additional charges on their next court appearance.
One of their accomplices, Mark Prince was shot and killed during the attack while another, Shaquille Wilbury of Buxton, East Coast Demerara was wounded. Wilbury remains hospitalised and is yet to be charged.
The fifth suspect, a female remains on the lam.
The police, in a statement, had identified the victims of the attack as Guang Hong Wang, a female Chinese national , 43, who is the proprietor of 5 Star Restaurant, which is located in front of her apartment, and Navindra Lakahalall, 37, of Zeelugt New Housing, Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, a customer who was also robbed.
Police have determined that two of the robbers posed as customers at the restaurant. One of the male suspects and the woman, police had said, entered the restaurant and purchased two beers, which they drank, and they then ordered a case of beers.
Guang was in the process of delivering same to them when the man whipped out a gun and proceeded to rob her and Lakahalall, while the three other suspects entered the premises.
Lakahalall was tied up, while Guang was taken to her apartment, which is located near the restaurant.
According to the police, the licensed firearm holder, who lives nearby, heard the commotion and immediately went to investigate and was attacked by the robber with the gun and another, believed to be Prince, who was armed with a cutlass.
As a result, the police said he was forced to discharge several rounds in their direction, after which four suspects fled the premises in a car, PTT 8606, which was parked nearby, leaving the wounded Prince at the scene.
The police were summoned and the getaway vehicle was intercepted at a road block on the public road in front of the Den Amstel Police Station. Three men, including Wilbury, who was in the back seat and had what appeared to be a gunshot wound, were in the vehicle.
An unlicensed pistol with an empty magazine was found in the vehicle and a sum of cash and cellular phones were found on the suspects.
Police added that Prince, who was found motionless with a suspected gunshot wound to the neck, had a cutlass in his right hand and a haversack on his back. A search of his person revealed the sum of $130,000.
