Gas attendant shot three times in robbery attempt
Crispin Gladden, a thirty-three year old KBH security, guard lies in a critical but stable condition as he recovers from three gunshot wounds he received during an attempted robbery. Gladden, an unarmed guard at the Esso Coral Groves gas station at mile one and a half on the Northern Highway, was attacked by three men around 8:45 on Friday night. The assailants drove up in a brown van with a gray sliding door and California license plates.
Alex King, Manager, Esso Coral Groves
?Three gentlemen attempted to rob the gas station. They confronted the security officer and took away his radio, at which point the officer fought back and tried to reclaim the radio and apparently it?s at that time he got shot. Three sots were fired and all three hit him. After they fired the shots into the security officer, I guess they got frightened or they panicked, thank God, and they fled the scene.?
Ann-Marie Williams
?The release also said that some attendant actually assisted the security officer, do you know anything about that??
Alex King
?Our cashier, on seeing the officer shot, ran out of the store and actually attempted to take the gun away from the assailants or subdue him, I?m not quite sure what she was trying to do, but yes she did assist and she gave a lot of assistance to the security officer in trying to slow down the bleeding to from wounds until the ambulance could come.?
Ann-Marie Williams
?And they escaped empty handed??
Alex King
?Yes. They didn?t get anything. Unfortunately, the security officer did get hurt, I understand he?s in a stable condition right now in the hospital. Our thoughts and out prayers are with him obviously right now, but no they didn?t get anything in the robbery. I would have much preferred they?d taken the money rather than shoot the officer obviously, but unfortunately he put up a fight and that was the consequence.?
Reports are that police have so far apprehended one of the three suspects, a resident of Lucky Strike Village in the Belize District and are looking for two others named Williams and Meighan.
