An eight-year-old girl of Dakara, Linden- Soesdyke Highway was yesterday afternoon admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing five pellet wounds to her neck after she was shot by an unknown man.
Christine Reevers was listed in stable condition at the hospital up to press time.
Her worried mother, Maureen Flores, told Stabroek News that the girl was playing in the yard with her three sisters around 2:30 when she was shot. Flores said the pellets entered and exited the child’s neck and injured both her shoulders in the process.
She said because yesterday was the child’s birthday, she and her husband decided not to send her to school. The woman said she heard her daughter crying and when she ran out of the house to see what had happened, Christine came running to her with blood streaming down her clothes. She was then rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre to seek medical attention. Flores said she was not satisfied with the treatment given to her daughter at that medical institution so she decided to take the injured child to the GPH. She was at a loss as to who would want to injure her young daughter on her birthday.
The child’s father Lane Reevers, who was also at the hospital yesterday, told Stabroek News that he was in the process of taking a bath when he heard what sounded like a gunshot .The man, who appeared confused, said his daughter gave him a brief description of a man who shot at her. He said he does not have any grievances with anyone and like his wife questioned who would want to injure his daughter
Reevers said he reported the matter to the police yesterday afternoon and expressed hope that the perpetrator will be arrested.
