By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was freed yesterday after prosecutors withdrew a charge stemming from an alleged shotgun assault at an Andros bar last week.

Prosecutors had alleged that Rashad Thompson, 37, assaulted Shannon Cataldi with a shotgun near Meltina’s Bar in Lowe’s Sound, Andros, about 9pm on August 29.

Thompson was charged with assault with a deadly weapon before Senior Magistrate Raquel Whyms and pleaded not guilty. In court yesterday, Mr Cataldi indicated he no longer wished to proceed, and the charge was withdrawn. Thompson was told he was free to go.

Sergeant Wilkinson prosecuted the case.