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East La Penitence Market shootout… Injured suspect charged with attempted murder
A 22-year-old man of Central Amelia’s Ward Linden, was yesterday remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge in relation to last month’s shootout at the East La Penitence Market.
Lashawn Lewis
Renard Caesar
Lashawn Lewis was placed on stretcher and lifted into the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan read the charge to him.
The charge read that he discharged a loaded firearm at Teon Alleyne called ‘Spoil Child’ with intent to commit murder on October 5, last, at East La Penitence, Georgetown.
He was represented by Attorney-at-law Gordon Gilhuys, who made a bail application for his client.
The attorney said that Lewis is innocent of the charge and presently unable to walk.
He added that his client was shot in the vicinity of the spine and the bullet is still lodged there.
As a result, the lawyer said that his client has been in pain and is in need of proper medical attention.
But Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers objected to bail, based on the serious nature of the offence and the penalty that it attracts.
Magistrate McLennan then remanded the defendant to prison. He was instructed to return to court on November 4, 2019.
Police have stated that there is an ongoing issue between the victim and the ‘MOB family’, (a gang comprising persons from Linden and French Guiana).
On the day of the shooting, Alleyne was purchasing vegetables from the La Penitence Market when the occupants of a black car drove next to the victim.
Shortly after, three persons exited, one of them allegedly being the defendant. All carried firearms and they discharged several rounds in Alleyne’s direction, but the intended victim managed to seek refuge.
According to reports, when Alleyne got to a safe location, he returned fire, injuring Lashawn Lewis, the defendant.
The attackers ran away, leaving the injured Lewis on the scene. He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, admitted under police guard and later charged.
Kaieteur News had reported that Alleyne had moved to Georgetown to seek refuge from the MOB, but apparently he was followed by his assailants.
Renard Caesar, 23 of South Amelia’s Ward, Linden was also charged in relation to this matter. He appeared last week before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and was remanded to prison.
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