Cop arrested after shooting accused wife beater

A man was admitted to the hospital on Friday evening after he was shot to the abdomen by a police officer, who was responding to a report of domestic violence at Itaballi Check Point.

The injured man was taken to the Bartica Hospital by the same policeman who shot him, and was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where he is being treated. His condition is listed as