Kaneville businessman Shimron Adams, 41, was last night fatally shot during a robbery at his Lodge establishment.
The shooting occurred at around 23:40hrs last night at Lot ‘H’ D’Urban and Chapel Street, Lodge, Georgetown. The police say that the two attackers reportedly wore surgical face masks, and one was armed with a handgun.
Adams operated a wholesale and retail business where alcoholic beverages were sold at the bottom flat of the three-storey concrete building located on the south-western side of D’Urban and Chapel streets.
The police said they were told that the two attackers entered the building through a galvanised sheet shutter and ordered Adams and a woman to lie on the ground, and they complied. The unarmed bandit then took off the businessman’s gold band and finger ring and ordered him to get up, which he did. The suspect then held onto the businessman’s shoulder bag and pulled at it, but Adams continued to hold onto the bag to prevent the suspect from taking it.
The attacker, who was armed with the firearm, discharged a round at Adams, which struck him in the abdomen and exited through his right side in the vicinity of his groin. The businessman then released the bag and fell to the ground. The bandit removed the shoulder bag, picked up the businessman’s phone and the cell phone from his 29-year-old female companion, and fled through the shutter.
The businessman was picked up by Police ranks from the Anti-Crime patrol and escorted to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
One 9mm spent shell, along with a warhead, was recovered at the scene.
The area was canvassed for CCTV cameras which were seen and captured when the attackers went to the business place and left on a black and white XR motorcycle. The suspects escaped south onto Chapel Street, west onto Princes Street, and south onto St Stephen’s Street, Charlestown, where they were last seen.
