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Jamal David Crumwell, 19, and Nykosu Gittens,Blake Swihart Jersey, 18, were on Friday asked to plead to a charge of discharging a loaded firearm at Kaieteur News Staffer, Shaun Persaud, and robbing him of his motorcycle.On November 18, last, at Broad Street, Charlestown, the two teenagers allegedly used a 9mm pistol to rob Shaun Persaud of his motorcycle valued at $410,000. They pleaded not guilty before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.The prosecution objected to bail thus the two accused were refused bail until December 17.According to reports the duo shot Persaud in the thigh before escaping with his motorcycle CF4664 and a pouch containing his driver’s licence during a brazen robbery in Broad Street, Charlestown around 10:30pm last Sunday.Persaud, 45, of Lot 94 La Penitence, Albouystown, is in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).Persaud, an Office Assistant with Kaieteur News, related that he was on his way home when a friend invited him to take “a drink” at a beer garden in Charlestown.Persaud said he wheeled his motorcycle into the shop and was having a “drink” when two youths rode into the beer garden on a motorcycle and immediately began assaulting him while demanding the keys for his bike. |
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