Better Hope resident Rosaline Lloyd was grazed by a bullet as she crept to shield her sleeping children, in the middle of a shootout between police and vandals early yesterday morning.

Lloyd, 43, was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital for the wound, which she sustained when police traded fire with three men who had been stealing copper wire in the area. At the time she, her husband and two of her five children were also in the house. The bullet grazed Lloyd’s head and doctors told her that she was within an inch of certain death.

The theft of about 240 metres of the copper wire resulted in a disruption to 500 landline customers.  A quantity of the stolen cable, valued at $1M, was recovered, while several persons were …..