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Young drug trafficker shoots ex-cop

Apr 26, 2016 News

A young drug trafficker, who threatened a former policeman Sunday night, walked up to him early yesterday and opened fire on him. The shooter then went to the victim’s home and bragged about the shooting to the injured man’s family.
Luckily, the 22-year-old victim, Donald McKenzie of Lot 52 Stanley Place, Kitty managed to escape death. He sustained one gunshot wound to the right arm and is hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
According to reports, the teenage drug trafficker went to meet with a small drug dealer who resides in the same yard with the ex-cop. The drug dealer and the teenager became involved in a heated argument.
The argument turned violent and the teenager struck the drug dealer in his head with a bottle.
The ex-cop, after seeing the commotion reportedly told the two men to continue their “issues” outside the yard, but the teenager got upset and a scuffle started between McKenzie and the teen.
The teenager reportedly ran out of the yard and jumped on his CG motorbike and escaped. He returned to shoot McKenzie. No one has been arrested as yet.
The police in a release said that about 08:30hrs yesterday, McKenzie was walking along William Street, Kitty, when two men on a motor cycle drove up and the pillion rider discharged rounds at him, hitting the former cop on his right hand.
The men then escaped and the 22-year-old man was taken to the hospital. The shooter and the rider were identified.
The victim’s aunt, Denise Wilson, said that Sunday night she and McKenzie’s mother were sitting outside of the yard at their shop when they heard the sound of bottles breaking.
“We went outside and see this boy (shooter) lash a boy in the yard in his head and then he started using bottles from our shop. Same time, Donald come and he went to the boy and tell him that they can’t behave like that,” Wilson said.
The woman further claimed that a fight started after which the teenager ran away and shouted “War now start” at McKenzie.
According to the woman, early yesterday, the teen and another man pulled up on a CG motorbike and told her too that “the war now start.”
The woman said that within 20 minutes the two persons pulled up again and told her that they just shot her nephew.
“Donald went to the shop and that’s how they shoot him. When he see them, he run into the shop and like when they open fire, they only get to shoot his hand,” the woman said.
She explained that her nephew quit the Guyana Police Force and went to Barbados. He only returned a few months ago.
Investigations are ongoing.

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