Officers from the Scene of Crime Unit cordoned off the Kosmo Tours car park on Worthington Avenue in Kingston yesterday after an employee was shot during a botched robbery attempt at the company. (Photo: Michael Gordon)

A driver employed to the Kosmo Tours rental company is now nursing a gunshot wound following a botched robbery attempt at the company's office on Worthington Avenue in New Kingston yesterday.

The police said the thieves made off with only a cellphone and an envelope containing credit card slips.

According to one of two female employees at the office yesterday, the incident occured shortly after 11:00 am when two men entered the office and enquired about renting a motor vehicle. One of the men, the employee said, pulled a handgun before she could respond, and demanded money.

"He saw the keys and told me to open the desk drawers," she said, "but I could not open it because I was afraid and my hands were shaking so bad."

The woman said the men searched through several drawers before becoming frustrated and ordered her to be killed.
"When I heard that I told them that I had $5,000 on me and that they should take it, but they refused," the woman said.

"Him put back the gun to my head and same time the driver opened the door and stepped in, and that's when they let go off me and started chasing the driver," the traumatised woman told the Observer.

The gunmen fired several shots hitting the driver once. He was later taken to hospital where he was admitted in
stable condition.

Yesterday, a bullet-riddled Toyota mini van, which was parked outside the building, told the tale of what happened earlier.

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