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Carpenter shot in foot by cops
– said to be robbery suspect
A 40-year-old man, who police said is a suspect in a robbery, is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, nursing a gunshot wound to his right leg.
James Emanuel Hutson, a carpenter of Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was shot at around 13: 30 hrs on Tuesday.
Hutson told Kaieteur News that he was going by a friend, when he noticed a car driving slowly next to him.
“I stop and when I turn back de police dem tell me to come in the vehicle, so I question them as to why, and then I hear a loud sound
James Emanuel Hutson
and when I look down I see blood running down my foot,” the man said.
The father of two said that “the police de going and put me in de trunk, but I argue with dem and dey put me in a car.”
Police in a statement said that Hutson was shot in his right foot after he attacked a police officer with an ice pick. The statement further indicated that the officers responded to a report that the 40-year-old man was in a shop and attempted to rob a customer.
He was eventually confronted in a yard at Kaneville Access Road, EBD. When the police tried to arrest him, he attacked the police officer with an ice pick, which resulted in him being shot, the Police stated.
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