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Annandale shooting three months later…Shot bandit still critical at GPHC
The alleged bandit, Dunstan La Fleur,who was shot by an Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman almost three months ago, is still hospitalized and 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 in whose house he was caught.
Dunstan La Fleur
Yesterday, at the hospital, sources told this newspaper that the father of one cannot do anything for himself although he is conscious.
“He is in the same position as he was when he was first transferred to this ward. He cannot eat, cannot speak and he cannot move at all,” the source stressed.
The injured man was first hospitalized in a very critical condition at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. He was on a life support machine and was at first described as “lifeless.” After his condition improved, he was transferred to the High Dependency Unit.
Asked about La Fleur’s medical condition the medical source said that his condition has significantly improved from the first time he was admitted.
“Yes, his condition has improved; we thought he wouldn’t have made it but he did. However, his condition is still the same as it was more than a month ago. He is still not moving around and his mouth is damaged,” the source said.
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 the bathroom upstairs and he heard some strange sounds. 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 got 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 said 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 escaped 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 where he remains a patient.
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