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Non-paying passenger shoots minibus driver

Apr 14, 2013 News

 
A man is now nursing a gunshot wound to his head after he was shot just after midnight on Friday by a passenger who refused to pay.
The injured man is 59-year-old Desmond Marcus of Louisa Row, Wortmanville.
Marcus, the driver of a route 41 minibus, said that he was in the vicinity of National Avenue and Caneview Avenue when a passenger requested to be put off. According to Marcus as the man was coming out of the minibus he made no attempt to pay the conductor so he decided to ask the passenger for his money.
There was an exchange of words between Marcus and his passenger when the passenger who appeared to be no more than in his early 20s whipped out an object that was wrapped in a handkerchief.
Reports are that Marcus was of the belief that the passenger was armed with a knife so he ran for a piece of wood since by that time both men were out of the minibus. According to Marcus the man then pointed the object in his direction and he heard an explosion. Only then did he realize that the man had a gun.
“De first time like de gun jam and is the second time he shoot I get hit.”
Marcus said that the man ran into National Avenue and he quickly jumped back into his minibus and drove himself to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was treated and sent away. According to the medical records seen by this publication Marcus was given Ibuprofen, a tetanus injection and antibiotics and sent home.
However the man’s relatives were not immediately satisfied with treatment given as Marcus while at home was still crying out for severe pain. He was again taken to the medical institution and was told that his injury was not life threatening and that he should return on Monday for possible surgery.
The hospital had done an X-Ray that clearly showed the bullet in the man’s head.
The GPHC in a statement on the issue said that Marcus arrived at the hospital about 02:00 hours and was treated and told to return on Monday to have the bullet removed.
But some sources at the hospital said that given the head injury it would have been customary for the hospital to keep the injured man for observation. This must be the first case of a man being discharged with a bullet in his head.
The management of GPHC subsequently recalled the patient and he is now admitted to the institution and is being monitored.

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