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Guard shot by young bandit during botched robbery
A 54-year-old security guard is nursing two gunshot wounds to his right side abdomen at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after being shot by a teenage bandit early yesterday during a botched robbery.
Injured:
Darby Blackman
The incident which left Darby Blackman of lot 62 “E” Field Sophia hospitalised, occurred around 06:37 hrs at Jamoon Drive, Meadow Brook, Georgetown.
In a release, police said that Blackman was riding his bicycle along Jamoon Drive, Meadow Brook, when he was confronted by a man armed with a handgun who demanded his valuables.
The police further added that during the incident, the father of three was shot twice to his abdomen by the armed man who escaped on a bicycle without taking anything from the victim.
The injured man’s daughter, Zinobie Cordis in an interview yesterday said that she was at home when someone informed her that her father was shot.
“I run to where the person said he was shot and I see him lying through the alleyway and his head was resting on a tree stump with blood coming from his nose and mouth,” Cordis said.
The man was rushed to the GPHC where he immediately underwent surgery to remove the bullets.
“He didn’t tell me anything much. He just say that he was coming home and this li’l boy ride up to he with a gun and ask he to hand over everything he has, but my father say that before he could have come off his bicycle to hand over everything, the boy shoot he,” Cordis said.
The woman added that her father told her that his attacker was a teenager who did not look older than 16 years.
She claimed that her father, who works as a security guard at a church in Queenstown, had nothing valuable on him at the time of the robbery. He had his haversack with food and his bicycle.
According to Cordis, though her father was a victim to a number of robberies in the past, yesterday’s incident was the first time he was hurt by his assailant.
Investigations are ongoing.
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