Second bandit in Montrose raid was former UG student

Mahendra Sukull

The other man killed in the Montrose supermarket robbery has been identified as a former University of Guyana (UG) student, whose involvement in the crime stunned friends and persons who knew him.

Mahendra Sukull, 24, also known as ‘Vicky,’ of Rohinital Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown, was killed along with fugitive former policeman Warren Blue during the robbery on Monday evening, in which proprietress of the Lahago Supermarket, Latchmie Baburam, was shot by one of the two men.

Baburam, who was shot in her right thigh, remained hospitalised up to yesterday in a