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Fowl cock row…After 10 days, victim succumbs in ICU
After battling for life for more than 10 days, Abiola Edie, succumbed to gunshot wounds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) early yesterday.
Edie’s mother, Pamela Edie, said that a staff member at the hospital called her yesterday morning around 06:00 hrs and gave her the tragic news.
Dead: Abiola Edie
A weeping Edie said that she was heartbroken when she received the news of her daughter’s death. She said that although her daughter was shot, she never thought she would have died.
A few days ago, doctors had told the elderly woman that her daughter was brain-dead and that she was not showing any signs of improvements. They had also advised the mother to remove the 38-year-old woman from life support, but the grieving mother refused and had promised to hold onto her daughter.
But unfortunately, the grieving mother could not have held onto her daughter for more than 10 days.
Yesterday, the elderly woman said that her daughter’s attacker and his family vanished from their home, the same day he brutally attacked her family. She added that a few of his friends are guarding his home.
On June 20, last, Abiola Edie and her son, Martin Barker, of McDoom, East Bank Demerara (EBD) were shot by their neighbour. Barker was accused of putting his game cock to fight his neighbour’s roosters.
The young man’s mother came out to defend him but the argument got heated and their neighbour went into his house, collected his gun and shot Barker twice. Edie was also shot in her face.
Barker was treated at GPHC and was eventually discharged but unfortunately, his mother succumbed to her injuries.
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