A bus conductor who was in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) last evening, after he was shot in the gut died later that night.
Travis Lowenfield, 27, of Plaisance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, was said to have been attacked in his home by a lone intruder sometime between 12 AM and 1 AM yesterday. He was shot once.
He was in the operating theatre last evening when this newspaper visited the GPH.
According to his sister, Anastacia Roberts, the assailant entered Lowenfield’s house, where he resides with his wife, and shot him before fleeing.
The motive for the attack was unknown. “I don’t know why someone would want to shoot my brother because he don’t have any problem with anyone or anything of that sort,” Roberts said.
“I really don’t know what happen and why he was shot. All I know is that I had a lil story Wednesday and I call me brother and tell he and he say to call he back tomorrow morning (yesterday). When I call, he answer the phone and tell me he at the hospital. After he said that, I didn’t believe he. Like then me cousin call back and tell me how Lowenfield get shoot and he at the hospital let me go there now,” she added.
The woman, who sat on a bench in front of the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit broke down in tears as she spoke with this newspaper.
Roberts explained that after a surgery was conducted on her brother, he remained in the operating theatre. She and other relatives were informed by the doctor that Lowenfield lost a lot of blood and even though they were trying their best they could by giving him blood, his body was rejecting the transfusion.
