A Guyanese man yesterday succumbed to a gunshot wound he suffered to the head in French Guiana on Thursday, when he intervened in a confrontation.
Kennard Mckinnon, 46, of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, was taken off the life support machine which he had been on since the incident, in which his friend was shot. The shooter is now in custody.
The man’s brother, Tony McKinnon, told Stabroek News last evening that he received a call Thursday evening from a man who identified himself as a doctor. The caller informed him that the bullet was lodged in his brother’s brain, resulting in the organ completely shutting down and that he would not survive.
“The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon. I got a call saying he was shot… then later the night, I spoke to the doctor himself and he said that he is going to die because is like his whole body dead already and is just for them to pull the plug,” the man said.
Yesterday, he said, he received another telephone call from the Cayenne Hospital and he was told that his brother died.
The other victim in the shooting, ‘Mine-man’ (only known name), is reportedly in a stable condition while ‘Taliban’ (only name known), the alleged shooter, has been apprehended by police.
McKinnon said he was told his brother was acting as a peacemaker between ‘Mine-man’ and ‘Taliban’ when he was shot. “I was told that there was some exchange of words when he get shoot,” he added.
McKinnon said his brother worked on a fish and shrimp trawler and would usually travel back and forth for months at a time.
He left home during the month of February.
He was father to a two-year-old girl.
