A thirteen-month-old toddler is dead and her preteen aunt is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after they were shot yesterday by Marc Angoy, who was targeting his common-law wife who had dumped him after years of abuse.
Dead is thirteen-month-old Arian Gill while her aunt Ashley Norton, 12, a secondary school student is in a critical condition at the GPH after she was shot twice to her leg and thigh. Arian was shot once to her left shoulder and died in the hands of her grandmother Shelly Norton.
Angoy fled after the shooting.
The child had lived with her grandmother, who was the intended target, her mother and two aunts in the bottom flat of a Lot 38 Eastville, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told Stabroek News that the shooter and the elder Norton were in a relationship but separated about a month ago. According to Blanhum, Angoy, 35, is on the run and police are expected to issue a wanted bulletin for him. He disclosed that Norton, who owns a shop in the interior, had obtained a restraining order against the man.
He said that despite this, yesterday, Angoy went to the Eastville house and discharged three rounds at a southern window. At the time of the shooting, the two children were in the sitting room area while Norton was in her bedroom. The bullets struck the children.
Norton, mother of Ashley and grandmother of Arian broke down in tears yesterday as she spoke with Stabroek News. Her blouse was stained with blood. The woman recounted that she was at home with Arian and Ashley and both the doors of the house were tightly secured. She said that she
