Waitress, 16, shot in restaurant robbery

Onika Luke

A 16-year-old waitress is currently hospitalised at a private city hospital after she was shot to the chin late Friday evening by a lone gunman, who posed as a customer and attempted to rob the Chinese restaurant where she works.

Onika Luke, of Lot 1 Vryheid’s Lust Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was rushed to the Woodlands Hospital, where she remained a patient up to yesterday afternoon in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

The attack occurred around 10.45 pm, during which Luke, who has been employed at the Lucky Chinese Restaurant, located at Better Hope, ECD, for a little