Man injured in Mandela shooting incident says he was unarmed

Lloyd Britton, the 20-year-old man who was shot by police on Saturday night on Mandela Avenue, is claiming that he and Elvis Fernandes were shot by the plain clothes policeman, who was Fernandes’ friend.

Britton, of Beterwer-wagting, East Coast Demerara, sustained a gunshot wound to his left side chest close to his heart and is now a patient of the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Hospital where he is under police guard.

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