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Security guard shot during botched robbery

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The fleeing bandit dropped this 9mm Beretta pistol with 16 matching live rounds at the scene of the confrontation

…bandit drops loaded gun in hasty retreat

AFTER shooting a security guard of the E.C. Vieira Investments Limited of Houston, East Bank Demerara — injuring his leg as he was in a vehicle at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara — an armed bandit was forced to flee on a waiting CG motorcycle, abandoning an attempt to steal the company’s wages from the vehicle the guard was in, and dropping his loaded pistol in the process of beating a hasty retreat on Friday afternoon.

According to a police report, at about 13:50hrs on Friday, EC Vieira Investments personnel were returning to Houston in a company motor car that had gone farther up the East Bank Demerara, and while snarled in slow-moving traffic at Peter’s Hall, the armed bandit approached the front passenger seat where security guard Lionel Nixon was seated and discharged a round at him, shattering the front windscreen and injuring his upper left leg.

Car driver Joseph Ferria, who was armed with a licensed handgun, immediately discharged a round at the bandit, who forthwith dropped his 9mm Beretta pistol with sixteen matching live rounds and fled the scene on a waiting CG motorcycle, escaping in a northerly direction.

Nixon was rushed to, and admitted at, a private hospital. One spent shell was recovered at the scene by investigators. Police are investigating this incident.

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