![]() Their friends and colleagues prayed at the scene for their recovery.īut by 7 pm, news came that the backseat security officer, Stewart, had succumbed to his gunshot wounds. The injured officers were rushed by ambulance to the San Fernando General Hospital. Visibly distraught and almost on the brink of tears, Ali stood watching the van where Peters' body lay. But the police stopped him and spoke to him in another area. ![]() Insp Ali, from Allied Security Services, arrived a short while later and went past the caution tape. The road was littered with spent AR-15 shells. Stewart could be seen slumped downwards in the pick-up bleeding profusely, while horrified shoppers and store clerks looked on. During the heist, one of the robbers dropped his AR-15 weapon. Baptiste and Stewart were also hit and the four bandits snatched two bags filled with cash and got into their waiting getaway vehicle. The bullets pierced the windows, hitting Jeffrey in the driver's seat. They had just exited the compound when the robbers opened fire on them after coming out of a vehicle facing them on the main roadway. Investigators said the guards went to Pennywise Plaza at South Trunk Road to pick up a large sum of cash. She remains warded in critical condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. A third guard, Peola Baptiste, was shot in the head. ![]() Stewart died on his way to the hospital. Peters died instantly after being shot around 5 pm, shortly after he drove out of the Pennywise compound with a large sum of cash. Officers Jeffrey Peters, 51 and Jerry Stewart, 49, worked at Allied Security Services. One of the robbery suspects remained on the run last night and the police helicopter was called in to assist in the search. Police recovered three AR-15s and a pistol believed to have been used in the murders of the guards. RADHICA DE gripped shoppers and motorists as five armed men opened fire on three security guards, killing two of them as they left Pennywise Plaza in La Romaine on Monday afternoon.īut within two hours, the four suspected robbers were all shot dead under a house at Pond Street, La Romaine.
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