Canadian shot in GMR&SC attack wants to go home

Jean LeBlanc, the Canadian man wounded when gunmen shot and killed Ricardo Rodrigues at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) on Monday, wants to be urgently medivaced out of Guyana.

Rodrigues, 40, was the clear target of the attack, in which LeBlanc and two other persons were shot.

LeBlanc, 42, told Stabroek News yesterday that while he has been receiving “great” care and treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he has been a patient since the shooting, he wants to “go home and be cared for properly.”

In addition, he stated that police ranks had taken his passport and his wallet with all of his credit cards and no one has since visited