Cops working to enhance video footage of Water St robbery/shooting

The police are working on enhancing video footage, obtained in order to identify the suspect who was involved in the robbery at the Electronic City branch located in the Fogarty’s building, on Friday morning at around 11.15 am, during which a security guard was shot, and another man robbed of over $1M.

Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken, when contacted yesterday, informed Stabroek News that investigators have since reviewed the surveillance footage but the images were blurry. As a result, he said, an extract has been sent to the Criminal Investigation Department for enhancement.

Security guard Anthony Joseph, who is attached to the store, was shot once in his abdomen after he attempted to foil an armed robbery, during which a man identified as Abdel Odie was relieved of $1.2 M.

Joseph was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, and later transferred to the Woodlands Hospital where he remained a patient up to yesterday. The lone gunman managed to escape on a motorcycle which had been parked closeby.

Stabroek News was told that Odie had just made a withdrawal from the adjacent Republic Bank branch on Water Street, and was proceeding towards the nearby Muneshwers Limited building, where his car was parked, when he became suspicious that he was being followed and entered the Electronic City store.

He was talking to another individual in the store when he was approached by the gunman, who demanded that he ‘hand over’ the package which contained the money.

It was at this point that Joseph, who was armed with a gun, attempted to intervene and was shot.