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Gunmen shoot teenager in the face

Jul 05, 2015 News

Dorwin Lord, 19, of Bush Lot, Corentyne is now a patient in the New Amsterdam Hospital after he was shot in the face while heading home from church.
According to the man’s mother, Rose Raphael, she was at home with one of her son’s watching television.   She said that around 19:30 hrs her son left to go downstairs, a little while later she heard her son hollering for ‘help  you all come them gun kill me.’
Upon racing downstairs she was confronted by four masked, armed bandits. The men were armed with three guns and a knife.
She and her son were held up and taken upstairs where the men demanded cash and jewelry. They asked for some foreigners, then relieved the woman and her niece, Valerie Williams, who was vacationing, of three gold rings.
They bandits then went over to the house in the back of the yard where they held up overseas-based Guyanese, Bibi December and her son Shameer December, and took away a total of $100,000 and a quantity of jewelry.
Around the same time as the bandits were making their escape, Dorwin Lord and his brother David, 20, were making their way home. They were about to enter their yard when the bandits opened fire hitting Dorwin in the face.
He was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was admitted for emergency treatment.
According to pastor of the Grace Bible Church, Vijai Rambarack , Dorwin and his family are dedicated churchgoers and he is happy that God saved his life.
According to a police report -at about 20:20h on Friday July 03, 2015, four men armed with firearms entered a house at Bush Lot, Corentyne, and held up the occupants Valerie Williams, Rose Raphael, Bibi December and Shameer December and took away a total of $100,000 and a quantity of jewellery.
As the perpetrators were leaving the home they accosted Dorwin Lord, 18, who was entering the premises, and discharged a cartridge in his direction and escaped.
Investigations are in progress.

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