Guard shot with own gun

THE hunt continues for two bandits who on Saturday night relieved a security guard of his firearm which they shot him with before escaping. The guard remains warded at hospital.

According to police reports, around 7 pm Estate Constable Kenny Small, of Pegasus Security Services, was on guard duty at Archie’s Supermarket in Cantaro Extention, Santa Cruz. Two men entered the supermarket, one walked to the back while the other stood at the front. The bandit who was at the back of the supermarket walked up to the security guard and locked his neck. His accomplice at the front later tried to relieve Small of his service revolver. During a struggle, one of the bandits managed to get hold of Small’s .38 revolver and a shot was fired, with Small being hit in the right side of his chest. As he slumped to the ground, the bandits ran off.

The bleeding man was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery and up to late yesterday, remained warded in stable condition. North-Eastern Division police who were on road-block duties responded to a wireless report on the shooting and cordoned off the area around the supermarket where they carried out a futile search for the bandits. Visiting the scene were Insp Dave Hilaire, Cpl Anand Ramjit and others. Up to late yesterday no arrests had been made and Cpl Ramjit of the Santa Cruz police is continuing investigations.