A 42-year-old man who is nursing pellet wounds to the head at the Georgetown Public Hospital claims he was going to pick sugarcane when he was shot, while the police said he was found with a box of stolen tiles on a businessman’s premises.
Harold Anderson of Grand Sand Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, was shot and injured by licensed firearm holder and businessman Deonarine Singh of Chand Sand Road, Soesdyke, EBD, a police release said.
According to the release, around 2 am yesterday Anderson was found on Singh’s premises with a box of tiles, which he had stolen from a storage bond that was broken into. He was shot to his neck in the process.
However, Anderson said from his hospital bed to which he was handcuffed that he was going to “go pick cane” when he was held up and shot.
It was 11.30 pm on Friday, Anderson said, when he was heading home that he saw sugarcane and decided to go “pick one” for himself. His sister who was visiting him said her brother “like cane bad, bad”.
Anderson said he was making his way to the cane when, “a man say stand up deh and I just keep walking. And all I hear is bam! Me ain’t even know if I hear bam, I just remember spinning on the ground and seeing one set ah stars.” He did not say whether the sugarcane he was going to pick was in someone’s yard.
Anderson sustained pellet wounds to the back of the head and neck, which affected his hearing. As he recounted his version of the events, he spoke loudly.
After being shot, Anderson said, he got up and made his way to the end of the road calling out for assistance. A man peeped through a window, he said, and he said the man kept looking at him. “I tell he fuh call the police if he ain’t want to assist me,” Anderson said.
The police eventually arrived and as they were transporting him to the hospital, they met an ambulance, Anderson said, and he was placed in that vehicle which took him to the Accident and Emergency Unit.
When Stabroek News visited the scene yesterday, there was no one at the house. Neighbours said that while they heard the shot they were not sure what had transpired.
One resident of the area said the occupants of the house reside overseas but had a watchman/caretaker.
Police are investigating the matter.
