Shot Albouystown man says quick response saved life

A recovering Joel Sullivan at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Albouystown businessman Joel Sullivan, who was shot in the chest during an attack last Friday, said his alertness and a quick responding neighbour saved his life.

Sullivan, 37, of James Street, Albouystown told Stabroek News from his hospital bed that he was locking up his business place on Emancipation Day when he saw a man running towards him from a corner away. “I thought he was running from the police,” Sullivan explained. However, he then noticed a gun in the man’s hand and decided to run into his yard and lock the gate.

“I said this look like me,” he explained, adding that the gunman then fired two shots at