1 in custody for Charity supermarket robbery-shooting

…shooting victim air-dashed to city hospital

One suspect has since been apprehended by the Police for the shooting of the 18-year-old daughter of a Charity businesswoman during the commissioning of a robbery by two armed men on Monday evening at the family business.

The alleged main suspect in the robbery
The helicopter that transported Mohammed to Georgetown
The business remains closed following the shooting

The injured teen, Feiada Mohammed, is presently in a stable condition after she was air-dashed to a city hospital where she is being treated.
Mohammed was shot to her head around 19:20h when the known suspects invaded the Manzoor Mohammed General Store in Charity, Essequibo Coast, Region (Pomeroon-Supenaam) under pretence as customers.
Guyana Times understands that the two males entered the business establishment as the owner, 54-year-old Zareeda Mohammed, was closing for the day.
One of the males, according to reports received, requested a bottle of Diamond Water; however, as Lisana Mohammed, a daughter of the business woman was to assist the men, she was held at gunpoint.
Police sources told Guyana Times that at the time of the robbery, a female customer was held up and taken to the upper flat of the house. The two perpetrators then returned to the lower flat of the property, where they saw Feiada Mohammed and fired a shot in her direction as she attempted to sound an alarm.
The bullet struck the young woman to her forehead. Panicked, the two bandits quickly escaped the scene of the crime.
Mohamed was rushed to the Charity Hospital and then transferred to the Suddie Public Hospital where she remained in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) until Tuesday, when an army helicopter was used to fly her to the city hospital.
When this publication spoke with an uncle of the injured woman, he relayed that he was told that the men invaded the property where they ransacked and stole an undisclosed amount of cash.
According to the man, at the time of the incident, a hotel which, is located next door to his supermarket, was blaring music.
He noted that he was told by Zareeda Mohammed that the men entered as she was closing up but knowing them, she instructed them to hurry and purchase whatever they needed.
“But after a few minutes passed and she didn’t see them coming out, she yell to ask them what going on because she couldn’t hear what was happening inside because of the loud music from the hotel,” the man explained.
However, shortly after, the woman saw her daughter running towards her with a gunshot to her forehead.
“She run out and tell she that bandits in the house, in the shop and that they tying up the other sisters and that they shot her. She say by time she start squeal and people come and they run into the place the bandits them get away from the back” the man disclosed.
The men reportedly were only able to steal the cash earning from Monday’s sales.
“They escape with the days sale, was three of them, they entered the upstairs from a door inside of the store and they ransack the house upstairs but I hear that they didn’t get anything else because when they heard the gun fire, they started to run” the uncle recalled.
The man disclosed that he was instructed that Feiada Mohammed is in a stable condition as the young woman had regained consciousness.
An investigation and manhunt have since been launched.