The America Street money-changer, who was shot in the abdomen and robbed by bandits last week Wednesday is still a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital and is expected to undergo surgery to remove the bullet when his blood pressure is reduced.
Orson Thompson of Light Street, Alberttown is currently a patient in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Hospital. The bullet is still lodged in his abdomen and doctors are waiting until his blood pressure lowers before conducting an operation to remove it, a relative told Stabroek News yesterday.
The relative said that Thompson is “coming around” and is conscious and eating.
Seconds after he arrived home on the night of December 19, Thompson was shot and robbed by two bandits of an undisclosed amount of money and his licensed firearm. During the ordeal, which lasted no more than five minutes, a dog in a neighbouring yard was shot dead by one of the gunmen.
Stabroek News was told that Thompson had apparently parked his motor bike in front of the gate and had gone to open it when two men hiding behind a parked bus a few feet away pounced on him.
The men ordered him to hand over the money and the gun and after he had handed over the money and they relieved him of the gun, the men fled in a car but returned later on motorcycles looking for something on the road. A relative had opined that it might have been the spent shells.
