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Shot bandit remains critical at GPHC
Donston La Fleur, the alleged bandit who was shot by an Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman last Friday remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
La Fleur, 28, of Tucville, was shot once to his lower right side face by a licensed firearm holder following a 20 minute gun-battle between him and the businessman, whose house he was caught in.
The bandit
Sources at the hospital say that the father of one is “lifeless.” He is on a life support machine and is showing no signs of improvement.
Kaieteur News was told that La Fleur had gained entry into the businessman, Mananno Jeffrey’s home through an open window in the family’s bathroom located in the bottom flat of the two storey building.
The 31-year-old businessman is a Rural Constable and a member of the Annandale North Community Policing Group. He had explained to this newspaper that his father, Ishwar Jeffrey woke him up and informed him that three men were in the yard.
“He went to urinate in the bathroom upstairs and he heard some strange sounds and when he peeped through the downstairs window, he saw the three men trying to get into the house,” the businessman explained.
He added that he was about to fire a warning shot but noticed that one of the bandits had already gotten into his home. “I went downstairs but was confronted by this guy. It was me and him face to face and he had a gun in his hand.”
Jeffrey posited that he fired a shot at the bandit but missed. “When I fired the shot, he run in the guest room (located in the lower flat) and was shaking the grill hard, hard and like he realize the only way he could have escape was through the same bathroom window.”
According to the 31-year-old man who operates a food stall and owns a fishing boat, the bandit then peeked out the room and fired a shot. “He had no idea that I was hiding at the side of the wall. So when he fired the shot, he came out the room, pointing his gun straight and I was right at the side of him but he didn’t see me and I fired the shot.”
“He fall down and I run out to look for the other two men but they had already escaped,” Jeffrey stressed. He added that police officers arrived at his home about one and a half hours later and took the badly injured man to the hospital.
The businessman said that this is the first time gunmen tried to rob him.
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