Patron, waitress shot during arrest attempt at Coverden sports bar

Odessa Glasgow

Two persons were shot at a Coverden, East Bank Demerara sports bar early yesterday morning, during a scuffle between a patron and a policeman who was trying to make an arrest after a disturbance at the nightspot.

Linden Samuels, 33, the customer who was involved in the scuffle with the policeman, and Odessa Glasgow, 27, a waitress at the R&V Sports Bar where the shooting occurred, are now both nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Police said the lawman’s gun went off during his scuffle with Samuels, of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, who was shot in the stomach. Glasgow,