– man says he deflected bullet to chest
A 25-year-old Stabroek Market vendor is under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing a gunshot wound to his left hand after he was shot during a confrontation with police in the Stabroek Market area yesterday.
According to the police, Andre Allicock, a beverage vendor of Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara was wounded around lunchtime yesterday during a scuffle with two armed ranks on foot who attempted to arrest him after he was found with a quantity of marijuana in his possession.
When Stabroek News spoke to Allicock at the hospital yesterday, he related that he was sitting in a chair close to a Digicel outlet in front of Stabroek Market when he noticed three policemen in dark blue uniform approaching.
He confessed that at the time he was “rolling a joint”, which he concealed after the officers ordered him not to move. The man said he “did not want no police story” so he attempted to escape but fell a short distance away from the stall.
He said that after surrendering himself to the police, one of the officers approached him and attempted to shoot him in his chest. The man said he pushed the officer’s firearm, which was pointed in his direction, with his left hand and was shot in the palm of his left hand instead. He was then arrested and taken into custody at the Brickdam Police station shortly after the incident.
The bullet was still lodged in the man’s hand when he spoke to this newspaper yesterday afternoon.
….This is so cruel…who does train the police man???? THAT IS JUST F*&^$$ CRUEL!!!!!…If the man been promise them a small piece nothing like this woulda happen.
These joint smokers don’t care who gets ill from these stink smelling joints, I 4 one becomes ill when I smell it being smoked, who ever wants to smoke their brains out, do so in ur home, not in public, a waiting to hear dem joint smokers in here eat my head off.
Remember cigarettes kills more yearly than weed.
eheheheehe ehehehehehe might be legal soon suh dem ent goin to eat yuh head aff…
CHERYL I agree with you, but the police were endangering the lives of more people by shooting in a public place.
Like u gat wan axe to grind with me, ev time I blog u gat some comment to make.
ha! ha! ha! ha!. I just rolling around with bare laughs hey
Just for a joint he got shot, boy what going on.
None of us was there, wait 4 the full story, what else he’s smoking, other than a joint, is these same joints getting them going nuts, causing them to abuse children, women and when they don’t have the money for their fixes, they attack citizens, if he was shot just 4 thi, then it’s wrong also, they didn’t shoot RK and Sugrim.
Why did they wait so long to take the man de hospital and y they shot him afta they captured him Lord have mercy……. they wanted to kill de man.
How courageous!!! Shooting an unarmed individual on the ground for a spliff. Well done Guyana Foolice, very brave of you!!!
what’s more, he was taken to the station and charged, instead of being taken to the hospital first.
Can anyone imagine giving a statement in that condition?…………. what ah thing!
That is some sicko for policemen. It do not warrant the man being shot for that. Charge these policemen.
a joint what next got to be a rookie cop lookin for rep Mr Green transfer this cop to the jungle.
a bullet for a joint!!!Life is not fair.There are really some stupid popo.
I hope he is ambidextrous and can roll those joints with his toes.
How dey could messup the man rolling hand suh – shoot he in he foot nuh
LOL. MAGGADOG
double lol, oh lawd de story sweet eh