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Investigations are still continuing into the shooting incident which left Kaieteur News staffer Shaun Persaud injured on Sunday last. Persaud was shot by bandits in the thigh. The two thieves managed to escape with his motorcycle CF4664 and a pouch containing his driver’s license during a brazen robbery at the corner of Broad and Ketley Streets, Charlestown.
Persaud told Kaieteur News, yesterday, that doctors have cleaned
Shaun Persaud
out the gunpowder that was inside of the wound. According to Persaud he was told that the bone has received some damage and doctors would have to replace it with steel. He said that no police has visited him to get a statement.
Persaud, 45, of Lot 94 La Penitence Street, Albouystown, remains in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Persaud, an Office Assistant with Kaieteur News, related that he was on his way home when a friend invited him to take “a drink” at a rum shop in Charlestown. Persaud said he wheeled his motorcycle into the shop and was having a “drink” when two youths rode into the beer garden on a motorcycle and immediately began assaulting him while demanding the keys for his bike.
He estimates that the attackers were both in their teens. The father of two added that while the bandits ‘braced’ him at a corner, one of them took the motorcycle keys from his pocket. They also relieved the Kaieteur News staffer of a pouch containing his driver’s license.
Despite being gun-butted, Persaud said that he tried to prevent the robbers from making off with his motorcycle.
Persaud said that this angered the robbers and one of them shot him in the left thigh. They then escaped with his motorcycle. Other patrons at the beer garden took the injured man to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Persaud suspects that the bandits trailed him to the rum shop. He recalled that his attackers went straight to him and demanded his key.
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