The five gunmen shot and killed Allan Jordon, 51, an armed guard attached to the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) terminal at Heathburn on the East Bank Berbice, just after they terrorised a taxi driver who escaped with his life.
The men, who stole $300,000, escaped in one of the oil company’s vehicles which was later found abandoned.

Witnesses said Jordon, of Third Street, Fyrish Village, Corentyne, had minutes before the 15:25 h robbery attack resumed duty on the 15:00 h to 23:00 h shift when he was gunned down.

Earlier, hire car driver Razack Abdool, 56, said he was at the New Amsterdam car park when two unknown men hired him for a trip to Edinburgh Village.

“Suddenly, three men exited the cemetery, armed with a bag, forced themselves into the vehicle and ordered that I go into the back seat,” he related.
He added that after he delayed a bit, he was pulled from between the two front seats and on to the floor of the back seat where he was beaten by the men, who had tied a cloth over his face.

Abdool said that after the men had driven for a short distance, he heard rapid gunfire.

The men then exited the vehicle leaving him alone and he was subsequently rescued by others, he said.

Security guard Gary Trim said he was in the guard hut in the compound of the GUYOIL terminal when at 15:25 h, a customer with a truck stopped to purchase fuel.

“As the truck entered the compound, I was about to close the gate when a white car suddenly stopped. Five persons came out and begun firing shots from automatic weapons,” he said.

“Jordon was sitting on the table backing the main gate, I was facing the gate…I saw Jordon body slumber (and) I knew that he was shot. I then tried to seclude myself at the back of the hut, and was about to pull my service revolver from the holster when one of the bandits pointed his weapon, which resembled an AK-47, to my head,” Trim added.

He related that one of the men said, “If you only use the gun I will blow your brains away,” and proceeded to take away his gun and the other that Jordon had.

Trim said one of the bandits stood guard stood over him, while two others went into the offices where they demanded cash from the staff on duty.

Not being satisfied with the money received, they returned outside and escorted him inside where they demanded he tell them where the safe was.

The gang then drove away in a company jeep PJJ 4994 which Police said they found abandoned in the cane fields aback the Glasgow new housing scheme about a mile away.

As the news of the killing spread across Berbice communities, the daughter of the deceased rushed to the scene and was inconsolable when she saw the body of her father, who had left home less than an hour before.

Anasha Jordon said her father had worked the night shift on Sunday and had returned for the afternoon shift when he was killed.

Bandits armed with AK-47 rifles last Thursday night attacked and robbed residents of Nonpariel, East Coast Demerara and later shot dead a man sitting on a bench at the side of a road in nearby Enterprise.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006