Shot businesswoman stable

Mar 03, 2014 News

The city businesswoman who was shot in the abdomen Saturday night in front of her Lama Avenue, Bel Air premises is in a stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit at a private hospital.
The woman Sasewantie Bhagwandin, was shot when she and her husband were attacked by three gunmen as they were about to enter their premises.
Bhagwandin’s husband was seen by her bedside but he refused to speak to this newspaper.
This newspaper was informed that the woman’s husband was robbed two weeks ago during which he was beaten about his head.
The family believes that the men who shot Bhagwandin were the same from that incident.
Meanwhile, a controversy is brewing over the circumstances surrounding the shooting of 21-year-old Brian Greenidge, who is nursing a single gunshot wound to his back at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
While the 21-year-old is claiming that he was shot and robbed by three men on Robb Street while going to the Bourda Market to purchase a mosquito coil, an army official has reportedly positively identified him as the man who tried to rob him at the Kingston Seawall.
According to information received, Greenidge arrived at the GPHC in a taxi a few minutes before midnight on Thursday to be treated.
When questioned by the police at the GPHC, Greenidge reportedly told the officer on duty that he was attacked and robbed. He allegedly gave the police a different address from the one he gave hospital officials who registered him.
The following day of the shooting, an army official, accompanied by two police officers visited the hospital in search of “the man who tried to rob him.”
Kaieteur News was told that the army officer said that he was on the seawall in civilian clothing with his female associate when he was confronted by two men. He identified Greenidge as one of the men.
“He say that after these men confront them, they started to fight and he shoot one of them and the other man hold up the injured one and they run and then disappear,” a source said.
However, yesterday when this newspaper visited Greenidge, who is under police guard in the hospital’s High-Dependency-Unit, the patient said that an army official went to him on Friday and told two police officers that “he is the one.”
He said that he never saw the man before and was never on the seawall that night. “Wah I gone do at the seawall? I went and buy coil when them man shoot me. I couldn’t sleep the night because mosquito de biting me.”
The injured man who is yet to undergo surgery, said that he left his Croal Street home around 22:00hrs that night to go to the market.
“When them man shoot me I went screaming but nobody aint help me. Is a good thing my cousin went in the market and happened to pass and see me lying on the road and bring me to the hospital,” the injured man said on his hospital bed.
Investigations are ongoing.

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