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Kaneville man shot in botched robbery

A 57-year-old man is nursing a gunshot wound to his right side chest at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after being shot by one of two young bandits early yesterday during a botched robbery.

Wounded: Patrick Rose

The incident which left Patrick Rose, of Lot 29 First Street, Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD) hospitalized, occurred around 04:20 hrs at the man’s home.
According to reports, Rose was getting ready to leave home when the men confronted him. He was shot when he tried to chop one of them.
At the hospital yesterday, Rose, an electrician said that the men seemed young and were not masked.
“I had a job in Berbice so I wanted to leave home early so that I could come back early. I got up and I took my vehicle outside the yard. I was going to park another vehicle in the garage because a man was supposed to come weed the yard,” Rose recalled.
He added that it was while he was in the garage that he was shot. “These two people come up to me and tell me not to move but I tried to run in the house and close the door but one of them pushed the door and come in the house while the other one waited outside.”
Determined not to allow the men to get to his family who were sleeping in the house, the father of three said that despite the men instructing him not to move, he dashed to his kitchen where he would normally keep a cutlass.
“I pulled the cutlass and pelt a chop and he (one of the gunmen) jumped back and that’s when he fired a shot at me,” the electrician recounted.
He added that when the shot was fired, both men ran away. “I was determined not to allow them in my house. I didn’t want them to tumble my place because I didn’t have money. I don’t keep money at home.”
The man said that crime in Kaneville has increased. The man recalled witnessing a robbery just over two months ago during which three young bandits robbed a van.
Early this year, residents in Kaneville had called on the government to set up a police outpost in the area in an effort to tackle crime in the community. Kaneville is located between Craig and Diamond.
“The criminals normally commit the crime and run and hide in Kaneville. Most of the times when these things happen, police at Grove Station take forever to come.”
Police are yet to take a statement from Rose.