A policeman was last evening shot dead and two others were injured after a lone gunman opened fire on their patrol vehicle on Avenue of the Republic between Regent and Charlotte streets, moments after the ranks noticed a suspicious number plate on a motor car.
Police Corporal Romein Cleto who is attached to the Brickdam Police Station was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital while Constables Randy Daly, 20, was shot in his left arm, and Anil Persaud, 28, was injured by glass from the vehicle’s shattered windscreen, the police said in a press release.
Hospital sources said that Cleto, a 25-year-old father of one of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, sustained several gunshot wounds to the
