Alleged bandit killed in shootout outside Campbellville pools bar

Butcher’s Pool Bar where the shootout took place.

An unidentified suspected bandit was killed on Tuesday night during a shootout outside Butcher’s Pools Bar in Campbellville.

According to a police press release, at around 11.20 pm on Tuesday, a group of persons, including a policeman and a member of the Guyana Defence Force, were at Butcher’s Pools Bar at Middleton Street, Campbellville, when two men approached and discharged rounds in their direction. Paul Chow, 31, of Railway Line, Kitty was hit to his chest and right jaw.

The policeman and the soldier returned fire, hitting one of the armed men about his