It has been four days since 22-year-old Sophia Pitman was shot in the chest by her ex boyfriend and while showing signs of improvement, she still awaits word from the doctor on her condition to plan her next move.
The bullet is lodged close to Pitman’s spine and according to medical staff at the Georgetown Hospital where she is hospitalized any attempt to remove it could leave her paralyzed. Relatives said they were told that she would have to be flown overseas for further medical attention. However they have not yet received any word on how soon this could be done.
Her mother Rosalyn John said yesterday that the tube that was being used to drain fluid from her abdomen was removed, but she was still in pain.
She also said that there has been no further word on the whereabouts of the shooter.
Up to press time last night, police were still hunting for the suspect
Around 8 pm on Tuesday the woman was on her way to her mother’s residence to pick up her three-year-old daughter when the man confronted her at the corner of Robb and Cummings Street.
While holding onto her, he told her that he wanted to play a game and later pulled out a weapon, which he said contained two bullets, one for her and the other for him.
After shooting the young mother under her right breast at close range, the man panicked and fled the scene.
This newspaper was told that he resided in a three-storey building on North Road but checks revealed that he was not there.
The woman’s relatives were told that he had fled to the mining town of Linden.
Following the shooting, Pitman managed to run a short distance and a car later took her to the Georgetown Hospital.
While in the emergency room, an x-ray was done and surgery was planned but that idea was later abandoned. Instead a tube was inserted to drain fluid from her body and she was admitted to the High Dependency Unit in a serious condition.
Following a chest scan she was transferred to the open ward on Thursday and has remained there since.
She had told this newspaper that she was feeling pain in the vicinity of her breast, shoulder and back.
The woman while recalling her ill-fated relationship with the 25-year-old man had said that things began to change when they moved to the interior to work. Her relatives did not approve of him and told him to leave. She opted to stay and this angered the man who vowed to have his revenge on day.
In February, he chopped her on the hand and this prompted her to end the relationship and she subsequently moved on with someone else. She said this angered him further, prompting his latest action.
