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Kitty execution-style attempt…Female victim likely to be paralyzed for life

May 24, 2014 News

While investigations into the shooting of Susan Da Silva, the 26-year-old woman who was shot twice last Saturday at Garnett Street, Campbellville, are ongoing, a relative confirmed that the young woman is likely to be paralyzed for the rest of her life.
This is as a result of the gunshot wound she sustained to her back.
The David Street, Subryanville resident is currently hospitalised at the Intensive Care Unit at a private hospital under police guard after being shot twice, once to her left arm and once to her back, by four gunmen.
The bullet which was lodged in her spine was removed by doctors on Sunday last.
According to the relative, medical personnel at the hospital informed family members that the woman will most likely be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
“The doctors say after three years if she gets any movement in her legs then there is hope, but if there is no movement, she will be paralyzed for the rest of her life,” the relative told this publication.
She added that Da Silva is not aware of the severity of her injury.
“We don’t know how to tell her that she wouldn’t be able to walk for the rest of her life. Right now she can’t walk and she knows that, but she doesn’t know she will most likely be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life,” the relative added.
Kaieteur News was told that minutes after the woman was wounded, she complained about not having any feelings from the waist down.
Recalling what happened, the relative explained that Da Silva, who was taking her mother to the airport, stopped at a relative’s home around 02:55 hrs to pick up two family members who were also leaving the country.
“Since she (Da Silva) left her home she noticed this car parked not far from where she lives. She drove off and noticed the parked car drive off too, but the car then disappeared from her view. It appeared at the back of her when she stopped at Garnett Street.”
She said when the woman noticed the car, she drove away and the men discharged two rounds at her. She reportedly lost control and ended up in a yard, breaking the fence and a stairway.
“When she drove into the yard, the shooters stopped in the middle of the road and the driver came out with another tall man and they fired about four shots at her and then they escape,” the relative explained.
The woman was immediately rushed to the hospital where she remains a patient.
According to a source, investigators have no clue as to who may want to kill the woman who works with her father at his stall at the Stabroek Market.
However, they believe that the shooting was an inside job since Da Silva’s shooters were well equipped with information as it relates to her timings and whereabouts.
Investigations are ongoing.

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