Detectives are examining all the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of an alleged bandit by aRaphael Armstrong called ‘Scar’Yarrowkabra shopkeeper on Sunday night.The bandit who has been identified as Raphael Armstrong, called ‘Scar’ is known to have connections to the drug underworld and although investigators have deemed the incident as a robbery gone wrong, they are not ruling out any other theory.According to the police, about 20:00 on Sunday,Jerseys NFL Cheap, Raphael Armstrong called “Scar”, 32, of Friendship, East Bank Demerara, who was armed with an unlicensed firearm, and another man entered the home of a shopkeeper at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway and confronted him and his son in an attempted robbery.Police said that a scuffle ensued between the shopkeeper and Armstrong, during which Armstrong’s weapon fell to the ground.The gun was retrieved by the shopkeeper who then shot Armstrong to his body, while his accomplice fled.The bandit was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, East Bank Demerara, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.The unlicensed firearm has been handed over to the police who are conducting investigations.Meanwhile, information reaching this newspaper stated that Armstrong was deported from the United States of America sometime last year, one year after he was busted at New York’s JFK international Airport with cocaine in cream liqueur.
