Bus driver, 55, shot and robbed in bed

May 19, 2013 News

… gunmen woke him from his sleep with a gun to his head

By Romila Boodram
A bus driver is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a gunshot wound to his right side chest. He was reportedly awakened from his sleep early yesterday morning by two gunmen, one of whom shot him.
Injured is Patrick Nurse, of Lot 719 Section ‘C’ Turkeyen. Nurse was shot and robbed around

Desmond Marcus

03:00am yesterday on his bed.
Yesterday, Nurse who is in a stable condition at GPHC recounted his horrifying experience to this publication.
“I was sleeping when someone wake me up and say ‘be quiet, don’t make a sound’ so as I was coming off the bed slowly, I was thinking what is next because I have a wife and daughter to maintain so I decided to raise an alarm,” Nurse recalled.
He explained that after he started shouting for help, one of the men shot him to his right side chest and demanded him to be quiet; Nurse did not heed the demand.
“I continue shouting for help and then he start hitting me in my head with the gun and the other man who was with him tell him to let them leave and they left,” the route 48 bus driver recalled.
He said during the one minute ordeal his wife woke up and she was quietly standing at a corner of the room. The gunmen did not touch her.
“After they left we come to the hospital so I didn’t get to check what went missing but all I know is that I had $8,000 and it gone, three laptops, my daughter’s Blackberry phone and a camera. I don’t know if anything else went missing,” the father of one said.
Only last month a bus driver, Desmond Marcus, of Louisa Row, Wortmanville was shot to his head in the vicinity of National Avenue and Caneview Avenue, South Ruimveldt by a passenger who refused to pay him the bus fare. Marcus is on the road to recovery.