The 22-year-old woman who was shot in her chest by an angry ex-boyfriend a week ago, has been discharged from hospital but has to return next month for doctors to see if anything can be done to remove the bullet that is lodged near her spine.

In the meantime, Sophia Pitman, a mother of one has returned to her La Grange, West Bank Demerara and is crying out for pains.

Her mother Rosalyn John told Stabroek News that she was discharged from the Georgetown Hospital around midday on Sunday.

The doctor handed her daughter a paper, she said, which stated that she had to return to the institution on December 4.

According to John, that date was given so that the “doctors could see what they can do”.

The woman said that though her daughter’s condition has improved, she called her yesterday morning crying out for pain.

She said that she was given medication when she was discharged and told to visit the nearest health centre daily to have the dressing on her wound cleaned.
Relatives said they were told that she would have to be flown overseas for further medical attention. However they have not yet received any word on how soon this could be done.

The shooter is still at large.
Around 8 pm last Tuesday the woman was on her way to her mother’s residence to pick up her three-year-old daughter when the man confronted her at the corner of Robb and Cummings streets.
While holding onto her, he told her that he wanted to play a game and later pulled out a weapon, which he said contained two bullets, one for her and the other for him.

After shooting the young mother under her right breast at close range, the man panicked and fled the scene.

Following the shooting, Pitman managed to run a short distance and a car later took her to the Georgetown Hospital.

While in the emergency room, an x-ray was done and surgery was planned but that idea was later abandoned. Instead a tube was inserted to drain fluid from her body and she was admitted to the High Dependency Unit in a serious condition.

Following a chest scan she was transferred to the open ward two days later.

The woman, while recalling her ill-fated relationship with the 25-year-old man, had said that things began to change when they moved to the interior to work. Her relatives did not approve of him and told him to leave. She opted to stay and this angered the man who vowed to have his revenge.

In February, he chopped her on the hand and this prompted her to end the relationship and she subsequently moved on with someone else. She said this angered him further, prompting his latest action.