Po­lice are search­ing for a sec­ond sus­pect af­ter Wednes­day’s dar­ing rob­bery at Long Cir­cu­lar Mall, St James, that left his ac­com­plice dead.

Leeke­mus Mur­phy, 33, died at the scene fol­low­ing a shootout with se­cu­ri­ty guards at the mall.

The two sus­pects al­leged­ly ap­proached a 57-year-old woman around 12.49 pm and point­ed a gun at her, de­mand­ing the keys to her white Nis­san Ti­i­da.

The rob­bery oc­curred near the Roy­al Bank ATM, with one man run­ning off with the vic­tim’s hand­bag while Mur­phy got in­to the car and be­gan dri­ving away.

As the woman raised an alarm, sev­er­al SWAT se­cu­ri­ty guards who had been per­form­ing an es­cort du­ty near­by re­spond­ed, as the sus­pect was stuck in slow-mov­ing traf­fic.

As two of­fi­cers flanked the stolen car and iden­ti­fied them­selves to Mur­phy, who was in the dri­ver’s seat, or­der­ing him out, he re­port­ed­ly point­ed a gun at them and they re­spond­ed by re­turn­ing fire.

The car crashed in­to the ex­it gate along Long Cir­cu­lar Road, near the Mount­ed Branch, Mur­phy got out of the car and at­tempt­ed to run, but col­lapsed and died at the scene.

A re­volver, along with four rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion, was found near his body and se­cured by the of­fi­cers, who lat­er hand­ed it over to the po­lice.

Mur­phy, who had ad­dress­es at Up­per Bournes Road, St James, and Pic­ton Road, Laven­tille, was known to the po­lice and was on­ly re­leased from prison sev­er­al weeks ago.