ONE of two robbers who commandeered a taxi Thursday night was mortally wounded when his gun went off when he was challenged by a policeman along Oxford Road in Kingston. His crony was apprehended.

The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) said yesterday that the identity of the dead man had not yet been ascertained, but said charges of robbery with aggravation and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition were laid against the second robber, a 15 year-old boy of Hagley Park Road, Kingston 11.

The CCN said that at about 8:20 pm the two, one armed with a handgun, held up and robbed a taxi operator of his Toyota Corolla motor car at Caledonia Avenue.

"On reaching the intersection of Oxford and Old Hope Roads the car crashed and they ran onto Oxford Road. A policeman in plainclothes observed their suspicious behaviour and they were challenged," said the CCN.

The CCN said that one of the robbers attempted to pull a firearm from his waistband and inadvertently shot himself in the groin and died on the spot. The juvenile was then apprehended and was charged by the Half-Way-Tree police.

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