Police are hunting a teenager who shot his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend on Friday night minutes after she shunned him.
Donnis King, 14 years of 41 Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital and admitted to the High Dependency Unit following emergency surgery.
Reports are that the young man who is said to be 17 years old and of questionable character visited King at her home around 8 pm and got upset after she spurned his advances. He reacted by pulling a gun and threatened to use it.
Speaking with Stabroek News from her hospital bed, King said, she had nothing serious with the young man but he, “had it bad for me.” She said he constantly visited even after she told him that she was no longer interested.
On the night she was shot, King said, she was sitting in front of her home when he turned up. She said they spoke briefly during which time she told him that there was nothing between them and no chance of anything happening.
“I ask he to leave ’cause we ain’t got nothing going and he got another girl too, but he wasn’t taking that. He held onto me and pull a gun and I didn’t want to scream ’cause I ain’t know if he would shoot any of my family who went inside,” the teenager said.
The girl said she tried to remain calm and hoped that the love he claimed to have for her would save her. He released her but the gun was still visible so she took a seat a few inches away, all the while keeping her eyes on the front door.
King said she was waiting for an opportunity to make a dash for the door and was attempting to do so when she was shot in the abdomen. After shooting her the assailant fled and has not been seen since. King’s relatives have since reported the incident to the police and are awaiting word on an arrest.
According to King, she moved on with her life a long time ago and has tried to let the young man understand as much. She said he went and started a relationship with another girl but would still show up at her home and molest her.
