Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Gunman shoots two on Norton Street
Two young men, Christopher McLean, 17, and Richard Philadelphia, are currently in the Balwant Singh Hospital having undergone surgery for gunshot wounds sustained last night on Norton Street, Lodge, having just turned off Mandela Avenue..
Wounded: Christopher McLean
According to reports, McLean, the grandson of retired Major General Norman McLean, was said to have been driving a borrowed car, around 20:00 hours, when he spotted a car that was following, flashing its lights to attract their attention. At the time there were three people in the car.
Eyewitnesses reported that as the car that McLean was driving stopped, the driver of the second car came out and immediately opened fire, striking McLean in the throat. The bullet reportedly exited.
The eyewitnesses said that the driver then went to the other side of the car and demanded money from Philadelphia. One person heard him asking, “Wheh de money?”
Philadelphia reportedly attempted to exit the car and escape but the gunman shot him in the left side chest. The bullet reportedly missed a kidney but ruptured his intestines and lodged in his abdomen.
A third person identified as Bradley who was in McLean’s car, and who had sustained a broken leg from a previous accident sustained minor injuries, but not from bullets.
McLean managed to drive to the hospital despite being shot.
He and Philadelphia underwent emergency surgery, in the case of the latter, to repair the damaged intestines and to remove the bullet.
The shooter drove away empty-handed and according to reports he has been identified to the police.
One view is that the shooting resulted from a case of mistaken identity since the car that McLean happened to be driving was not the vehicle he would normally use.
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