Family wants justice after security guard hit by stray bullet dies

Michael Woolford

The Cumming’s Lodge Secondary School guard who was shot in the head by a stray bullet intended for another on September 10 died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Friday afternoon and his family is determined to secure justice.

Dead is Michael Woolford, 68, a father of 13 who resided at Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara.

Woolford was hospitalized since the evening of September 10 when he was rushed to the GPH Accident & Emergency Unit (A&EU) after sustaining a single gunshot wound. One of his daughters, Claudia Mohamed had told this newspaper that her father was shot while on duty when someone fired at two men engaged in an altercation.