Bandits on Sunday night shot a 25-year-old man twice after robbing him while he dropped off some passengers at the Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara (ECD).
Andy Gobin of Brickery, ECD is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital with gunshot wounds to his right side shoulder and left side arm. One of the shots grazed his chest before entering his left side arm. He is in a stable condition in the open ward.
Speaking with Stabroek News from his hospital bed, Gobin said the incident occurred shortly after 10 pm as he was dropping two passengers at Second Bridge, Cow-pen Street in the scheme. The man, who started operating his car as a taxi just eight months ago, said the street was a dead-end and it was when the passengers had disembarked and one of them was fumbling for money that the two men, armed with handguns ran up. They held him at gunpoint, he said, adding that he could not have seem them very well as the area was not well-lit. He attempted to fight back, but they relieved him of about $20 000. “I try to drive away,” he stated saying that it was while he was doing this that he was shot.
The injured man managed to drive to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre from where he was referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital. Police, in a press release said that a warhead has been recovered from Gobin’s car. Investigations are continuing.
