Bike bandits kill vendor, flee with cash and loaves of bread
Police are hunting for two bandits who escaped with cash and three loaves of bread after killing a
Dead: Andre Alexander
42-year-old bread vendor during a robbery on Friday night in ‘C’ Field Sophia, Georgetown.
Andre Alexander, of Lot 394 ‘C’ Field Sophia, was shot in the stomach and succumbed at around 23:00 hrs on Friday during surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The father of two had worked as a driver with Banks DIH Limited, and sold bread after working hours.
The attack occurred at around 20.30 hrs at the victim’s bread stand, which is situated about four houses from his home.
Police said that Alexander was at his bread stand when the two men rode up on a motorcycle. The pillion rider requested three loaves of bread and paid with a $5000 note.
Kaieteur News understands that while Alexander was in the process of making change, the ‘customer’ whipped out a gun and demanded cash.
When Alexander put up a fight, the robber discharged two rounds, one of which struck the vendor in the stomach.
The two men relieved their victim of his cash and also escaped with three loaves of bread.
The victim’s wife, Beverley Alexander said that she and her husband have been operating the bread stand at the same location for more than six years and were never confronted by bandits until Friday night.
The stand where Andre Alexander was killed.
She said that she was at the stand when they two bandits approached her husband and shot him when he resisted.
According to Mrs. Alexander, two other customers were at the stand when the robbers attacked.
“After he (pillion rider) collected the bread, my husband was making change to give him when he pulled out a gun and demanded the cash, so my husband tried to push away the gun and the man fired one shot and when that one missed, he fired another shot,” the woman noted.
She further related that when she heard the first shot, she ran for her life. “I run behind the stand and when I see the other suspect coming, I start run.” The bandits did not try to rob the other customers at the stand.
Beverley Alexander said that after the bandits escaped, she ran to her husband and found him lying on a bench.
“He was unconscious and bleeding. A bus took him to the hospital and when they rushed him to theatre, he died,” Beverley said.
Andre Alexander was described as a quiet and hard working individual.
No one has been arrested.