Canadian-Guyanese, 31-year-old Ruth Rodney-Grimes, underwent surgery yesterday at the GPHC to remove a bullet from her abdomen while her 67-year-old father-in-law George Grimes is being closely monitored by doctors with two bullets lodged in his body following an armed robbery.
The duo was shot on Saturday evening when three armed bandits invaded their Lot 1853 Nutmeg Street, Festival City, North Ruimveldt home carting off a laptop computer and jewellery . Rodney-Grimes’s husband, Kevin Grimes suffered a laceration to his head ,from being gun-butted, while her mother in-law Enid Grimes, is nursing a swollen nose, the result of being elbowed by a robber during the attack .
A friend of the younger Grimes, Dexter Fergus, who was with him on the patio at the time, said “These guys come in and draw their guns. About three or four of them”. He stated that they then started lashing him but during the scuffle with Grimes and one of the
