John Myers Jnr, Freelance WriterCLARENDON:
TWO PEOPLE were shot and injured when gunmen held up and attempted to rob the Western Union store in Four Paths, May Pen yesterday.
Those injured have been identified as Lesmond Laing, a security guard contracted to Alpha Security and Warrel Stephens, a bystander of an Old Harbour address.
According to the police, about 11:30 a.m., three men armed with guns entered the Western Union store, upstairs the Super Plus Supermar-ket. The men then held up the security guard, one of whom was dressed in plain clothes, managed to elude the gunmen and alert his colleagues downstairs. A struggle between the gunmen and the security guard, reportedly, ensued during which the security guard was shot in his left leg and groin area.
The gunmen then escaped in a waiting Toyota Corolla motorcar licensed 0612BX in which the driver was waiting. They sped away in the direction of the Bustamante Highway and, upon reaching the Four Paths Police Station, they fired shots on the building. A man, who the police say was there to make a report, was hit in the buttocks.
Both men were taken to the May Pen Hospital, where they were admitted.
The police say the car in which the gunmen were travelling crashed into an embankment near the Bustamante Highway. They abandoned the car and escaped into a nearby cane field. It is believed that the driver of the car was shot as the driver's seat and the steering wheel had blood stains on it.
The car in which they were travelling, the police confirmed, was stolen from the Christiana area of Manchester the night before. However, the police noted that the men changed the licence plate, tinted the windows and took off the hub caps.
A strong contingent of policemen is now combing the area for the men.
