A Wakenaam businessman is now dead after he was shot during a robbery attempt and then accidentally run over by a car in the city.
Mahendra Persaud, called Amar, 26, of Good Success, Wakenaam, was shot in the neck during the failed bid by two men, who tried to relieve him of the $700,000 he had with him in a bag around 10.45 am yesterday at the corner of Regent and Alexander streets.
The two men, one of whom police have managed to identify, fled the scene on a CG motorcycle. Another man,
