A man was shot and injured on Sunday morning at Bourda Road while two armed men were escaping after robbing a director of Church’s Restaurant.
Dennis Lewis, 52, of Lot 156 James Street, Albouystown, suffered a single gunshot wound to his right leg and is currently a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital while police are investigating the matter.
According to police, the armed bandits relieved the director (who was unnamed) of an undisclosed sum of money when he had just left the entity with the bag. It was during the confrontation and brief wrestle for the bag, a round was discharged, striking Lewis who was a short distance away. The second perpetrator waited on a motorcycle on which they both escaped.
When Stabroek News visited the injured man at the hospital, he explained that between 7-7.30 am he had been shopping and decided to stop at his sister’s stall at the Bourda Market. “I put down my bag and park my bicycle and all I hear is bam and is a bullet in my foot.
I ain’t see who fire the shot. All I know is a man on a motorbike went pushing through to go collect the man who fire the shot,” he said.
The man said he was rushed to the GPH by his sister and her husband. There, he said, part of the bullet was removed. “Half of the bullet still in my foot; it burst in half,” he said.
Lewis said the police have not yet visited him to take a statement and this has raised some amount of concern since he is interested in finding out who shot him.
“No police never come to me. No police ever come and ask me what happened or anything. I feel very bad because I want to know who is the gunman.
These people robbing people and doing things stupidly, injuring people stupidly as far as I concerned. You can’t fire shots on the ground; you gotta fire shots in the air to scare people, when you fire shots on the ground you wanna kill people. That’s how I see it,” he concluded.
