Police are still looking for the suspect involved in a shooting at Cheers and Beers Bar at Alexander Street, Kitty, Georgetown, and the investigation is ongoing, Commander of Region Four (A), Assistant Commissioner Simon McBean said yesterday.
The police reported that they were alerted to the shooting about 4.30 am on October 15th, when Constable Grant who was on duty at the Kitty Police Station heard three loud explosions similar to the sound of gunshots, coming from the northern direction on Alexander Street, Kitty.
Corporal Daniels, Constable Whoseley, and Constable Bethune were on patrol in the area and acting on information received, proceeded to the Cheers and Beers Bar. When they arrived there,Vernon Hardin, a 32-year-old security officer of J&M Security Service, told them he was on duty at the bar armed with a licensed Taurus 9mm pistol when an identifiable man approached him. The man drew a firearm from his waist, pointed it at him, and discharged two rounds.
Hardin said he drew his gun and discharged a round at the suspect, who then dropped the firearm he had and ran along Alexander Street and escaped. That firearm, which was left on the ground in the vicinity of the bar, was picked up by the police, and found to be a .45 pistol, along with a magazine containing eight live .45 rounds.
Hardin’s firearm was also taken to the police station as part of the investigation and several people were interviewed.
