| Prominent Linden Businessman, Albert Joseph, well known as Bolo, owner of Bolo’s Variety and Furniture Store on Sunflower Street in Wismar, was yesterday afternoon shot in the abdomen and left side, by a bandit who demanded cash, but escaped with less than $10,000 and a gold chain the businessman was wearing.Bolo’s daughter, Lauren, rushed the injured man to the Linden Hospital Complex. She was in the cashier booth, and witnessed the whole incident.Lauren related, ‘’I was in the cashier booth standing and my father was sitting just outside, when this man entered the store. I thought that he was just a regular customer, but then I heard my father ask him what he wanted, and the man said ‘Gimme the money!’ My father told him he had no money, but then the bandit said ‘Gimme what you got man; gimme what you got’.Albert Joseph“So my father reached into his pocket, for the little money he had,NFL Jerseys Sale, and the bandit probably thought that he was going for his gun, and shot him.” Lauren said that the money the bandit got away with was probably less $10,000, as the store had just opened a few hours earlier, and had not done much business.She said that her father gave the man the money and his gold chain, despite the fact that he had been shot.She added that her father did not have his licensed firearm on him, as he had left it in one of his vehicles the night before. Several of the man’s relatives and Linden residents, including fellow businessmen converged at the hospital, after news of the incident spread. Bolo, meanwhile, was said to be in stable condition, and appeared conscious, as he was wheeled out of the X-ray department of the hospital.Initial plans to transfer him to the Georgetown Public Hospital were quashed after the resident surgeon who was initially not in the building arrived at the hospital. Bolo was subsequently taken into theatre. But later last night the hospital rushed him to the city.The suspect is still at large, according to reports, and efforts are being made to retrieve the images on the store’s surveillance cameras to determine his identity.Police are meanwhile continuing their investigations. |
