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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Cops kill bandit in shootout after ice factory robbery

by

Sascha Wilson
247 days ago
20241101

An uniden­ti­fied man was killed by po­lice dur­ing a shoot-out on Wednes­day in Ca­paro.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred as Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice were re­spond­ing to a re­port of a rob­bery at an ice fac­to­ry at Ca­paro Bras­so Val­ley Road in­volv­ing four gun­men. They were giv­en the li­cence plate num­ber of the al­leged get­away ve­hi­cle.

While on the way at 9.45 am, the of­fi­cers saw a black Hyundai Elantra bear­ing the li­cence plate num­ber head­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion.

The of­fi­cers tried to block the ve­hi­cle’s path but it veered to the right and elud­ed the po­lice ve­hi­cle. A back­seat pas­sen­ger in the get­away car then al­leged­ly be­gan shoot­ing at the po­lice. The of­fi­cers re­turned fire and the ve­hi­cle crashed off the road. The oc­cu­pants al­leged­ly came out with guns point­ed, and the po­lice opened fire. One of the men was hit and fell to the ground. He was lat­er pro­nounced dead at the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

Based on in­for­ma­tion gath­ered, the of­fi­cers then went to a forest­ed area short­ly af­ter and saw masked gun­men. When the of­fi­cers called on them to stop, they al­leged­ly point­ed their weapons at the of­fi­cers, who opened fire on them. They, how­ev­er, man­aged to es­cape.

With as­sis­tance from the Air Sup­port Unit, the of­fi­cers con­duct­ed search­es but the sus­pects were not found. How­ev­er, the of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a Glock pis­tol with an ex­tend­ed mag­a­zine, one round of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and two masks.

The man re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.

Mean­while, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Snr Supt Si­mon, Supt Glo­den, Supt Gyan, ASP Ablacks­ingh, In­sp Pe­tit and Sgt Ba­goo, a Mac-10 firearm and a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 11 9mm rounds of am­mo were dis­cov­ered at Flem­ming Street, Long­donville.

The dis­cov­ery was made af­ter of­fi­cers of the Long­denville po­lice post, in­clud­ing ag Cpl Phillip, ag Cpl Holl­wah and PC Stew­art re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that a man was seen with a firearm near an aban­doned shed in that area. How­ev­er, no one was ar­rest­ed.


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