The Tactical Services Unit Inspector of Police remains under close arrest as investigations continue into the shooting of the former employee of a Chateau Margot, East Coast business around 6:35 pm on Tuesday.
The shooting took place at No. 2 Village, East Canje with the officer’s personal firearm which was recovered by the police.
The injured man who underwent emergency surgery at the New Amsterdam Hospital and was a patient at the Intensive Care Unit was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.
Reports are that doctors were unable to remove all of the pellets and that the man’s lungs had been damaged.
His sister told Stabroek News last evening that she saw her brother around 4 pm on Tuesday when he visited his mother. He then left to go to his uncle’s residence nearby, where the shooting took place.
A police source told this newspaper that the man was in a car when the inspector ordered him to get into the other car.
He complied and in the process he pushed the officer and caused him to fall in a drain. The source said too that the ex-employee then fled through an uncle’s yard and attempted to scale a picket fence which broke and caused him to fall.
The inspector followed him and as he closed in on him, the man picked up one of the staves and “advanced towards the inspector who fired the shot at him.”
However, relatives are disputing this, saying that the man was shot while trying to run away and that he did not try to attack the officer.
Police had said in a release that the Inspector’s services were unlawfully secured by the businessman and the policeman went in search of the former employee who had allegedly embezzled money.
The police said that the inspector who was in plainclothes at the time located the former employee, who is a resident of Charlestown, Georgetown, at No. 2 Village and during efforts to arrest him “shot and injured him in the region of the left armpit after he was allegedly attacked with a piece of wood”.
The inspector who was stationed at the Sparendaam Police Station has been placed under close arrest at the Central Police Station in NA.
The police source had told Stabroek News that the inspector acted irresponsibly and should have contacted them to assist in the man’s arrest.
The source said that the ex-employee would normally deposit proceeds from the business in a vault at the end of the day.
However when the owner turned up the next morning and checked the vault no money was there and the employee had already disappeared. The police at the Sparendaam Station were contacted and investigations were conducted.
The owner subsequently received information that the man was at Fort Ordnance, East Canje and the inspector travelled there to arrest him.
