Shot dispatcher stable, but cannot speak

Apr 25, 2009 News

Seventeen-year-old Emmett Sauers, the taxi service dispatcher who was shot in the neck by bandits, Thursday evening, remains in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Sauers however cannot speak nor ingest any heavy foods since the bullet is still lodged in his neck.
Donna Hinds, Sauers mother, told Kaieteur News that she received a phone call from her older son informing her about the shooting. “My big son call me and tell me mommy Emmett get shoot”.
The woman who resides in Berbice said that she immediately boarded a bus and headed to Georgetown.
“I just pick me self up and rushed to see what happen to my son because is he and he brother does live together”.

The mother said that she was told by eyewitnesses to the crime that her son who works as a dispatcher was at the time speaking to one of the taxi drivers.
“Emmett was leaning talking to the taxi driver, when the two gunmen came and tried to rob the taxi driver”.
She said that the bandits really didn’t come to Sauers, but it was only because he was leaning talking to the driver.

The woman said that after the bandits pounced, they told the taxi driver and her son to hand over their valuables.
“After they tell he to pass he valuables he turned to the bandits and asked if was just like that”. After he said that the bandits just whipped out the gun and shot him in the neck. Sauers was relieved of a gold band, ring and $8,000 in cash.

The mother said that doctors at the hospital have informed the family that they would be monitoring Sauers’s condition in the coming days, when he probably would undergo surgery to remove the bullet.
According to the driver, Roysdale Sutton, 32, of Section ‘C’ Enterprise, he and Hinds were sitting in the vehicle, HB 4993, when two men one of them dreadlocked and the other with low cropped hair approached them.

Sutton said that one of the men then pointed a hand gun and ordered him to hand over his valuables.
The driver said that he complied, giving them a gold band, a gold ring and a small sum of cash. He alleged that Sauers remarked, “Is just suh?”

This apparently annoyed the gunman, who responded by shooting Hinds in the neck.
Sutton said that the bandits then fled through a nearby alleyway to the north of Joseph Pollydore Street.
Natasha Hamid, another dispatcher, said that Hinds was scheduled to take over from her at 20:00 hrs.
However, he arrived at around 19:00 hrs and decided to go across the road to play a game of pools. He opted to sit in one of the vehicles with Sutton until his shift started.

Hamid said that she was approaching the same vehicle when she heard a sound that she mistook for a bulb exploding or a firecracker. But then she heard Sutton, the driver, shouting that Hinds had been shot.
She said that the teen’s brother, who had arrived a few minutes earlier, took his wounded sibling to hospital.

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