Dexter Mc Donald is still a patient of the Georgetown Hospital and his condition is listed as serious. Yesterday he was receiving saline and oxygen.
Speaking to this newspaper, the injured man’s fiancée who did not want her name mentioned said that the incident occurred at her sister’s house. She explained that shortly before the shooting the perpetrators attempted to remove the keys from a car that was parked on the roadway.
Her niece and a friend were sitting in the vehicle she said and her brother went to their assistance.
The woman said that it was at this point that one of the men discharged a round in her brother’s direction and he ducked.
Mc Donald who was standing on a nearby bridge was struck by the bullet. According to her the bullet damaged parts of his lungs, kidney and liver.
Following the incident the police said that they were investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Mc Donald who was found by a relative in Princes Street, Wortmanville with a bullet wound around 9:40 pm.
Residents had said that the perpetrators of this attack were part of a gang of youths who have been targeting the area for the past two months.
In wake of the incident they expressed a need for street lights, police patrols and the locking of the cemetery entrance after 6 pm, to quell their growing fears.
