Better Hope man shot in Plaisance gunplay

Jomo Lewis

A Better Hope man is now nursing gunshot wounds after he was shot allegedly by a man who is wanted for a string of robberies early yesterday morning.

Jomo Lewis, 34, of Plaisance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara was shot to his shoulder and abdomen and was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment, police said. In a statement the police disclosed that the incident occurred at around 2:45 am yesterday. The police said that two men were involved in an argument on the Plaisance Railway Embankment, ECD, when one of them discharged rounds at the other which missed and struck Lewis.

The suspect has not yet been arrested and investigations are in progress. `C’ Division commander M. Chapman said that the