Village day ‘Crank Up’ leaves man with gunshot wound

Jul 27, 2015 News

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are working round the clock to save the life of a man who was shot to the abdomen during an altercation at a dance early yesterday morning.

Jumo nursing a gunshot wound

Jumo Thompson,32, of Lot 100 South Better Hope, Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara was accidentally shot by a stranger who is said to be a man wanted by the police and left lying on the ground, panting for breath.
Police in a statement said that about 02: 45 hours on Sunday, two men were involved in an argument on the Plaisance Railway Embankment, when one of them discharged rounds at the other.
The bullets missed the target and struck bystander Thompson to his shoulder and abdomen.
Police said that the suspect has not yet been arrested. This newspaper understands that patrons at the Plaisance Village Day ‘Crank Up’ were sent scattering after hearing the gunshots.
An eyewitness told this publication that Thompson was at the dance in Plaisance opposite the cinema, when he was shot in the abdomen.
After Thompson was shot, several villagers accompanied him to GPHC where he is currently receiving medical treatment.
Yesterday, when this newspaper visited Thompson at the hospital, he was seen lying on a bed with medical personnel standing around him.
Thompson later told Kaieteur News a slightly different story.
He said that he attended the party when he became involved in an argument with a man by the name of Rawle Franklyn and his accomplice.
He explained that after the argument, Franklyn and his accomplice went to his mom and told her he had stolen three ounces of gold from them.
Thompson is claiming that the men fabricated the story.
“I lef them and went back inside the dance. Like five minutes after these men come and stick me up in the dance like if is sandwich them mekkin. Then all I see is Franklyn friend pull out de gun and fire one bullet, but it miss me. Then he shot a next one and is dah one catch me in me belly and pass through me back.”
Thompson has commended the doctors and nurses for the quality care they have been providing him.