Gunmen shot and injured a man at Front Road, West Ruimveldt on Friday night for reasons unknown minutes after he left a friend’s home.
Carlos Barker, 22, of Middle Road, La Penitence, was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot in his right hip but yesterday the man discharged himself, reportedly saying that he needed to get home.
Police in a press release issued yesterday said that Barker had visited a friend in West Ruimveldt and was walking along the roadway when he was confronted by three men all armed with handguns who asked him, “If he wanted a problem”. The men opened fire on Barker and fled the scene.
The police are investigating.
