Police are yet to apprehend the bandits who robbed and shot taxi-service dispatcher, 18-year-old Emmett Sauers at D’Urban Street on Thursday night.
Meantime, the teenager, who was shot in the neck, has been admitted to the open ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital. He is in a stable condition, his mother, Donna Hinds, told Stabroek News yesterday. However, due to the wound, Sauers cannot speak and can only ingest liquids. The bullet is still lodged in his shoulder and he has to be monitored for three days before undergoing surgery to remove it, she said.
Police, in a statement yesterday said that they were investigating the robbery. The lawmen said that investigations revealed that Sauers and taxi driver Roysdale Sutton of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, were sitting in Sutton’s vehicle outside the C & J Taxi Service when they were confronted by two men armed with guns.
They were held at gunpoint and Sutton was robbed of his personal jewellery and $8,000. During the incident one of the men shot Emmett to his neck after which they escaped, the police said. Police sources said yesterday that they are yet to apprehend the suspects.
Sutton had told this newspaper on Thursday night that the incident occurred at about 7:50 pm. He said that he had just pulled up and parked opposite the taxi service when the two men suddenly appeared on both sides of the vehicle. Sauers was sitting in the front passenger seat. He said that both of the men, who appeared to be in their 20’s, were armed; one with a 9mm handgun and the other with a .32 pistol. They did not conceal their faces.
He had recalled that the bandits told him to “pass it” but he was not going to give in so easily though he was relieved of a gold ring and band and $8000. “I tell them men y’all ain’t gon get nothing suh and then they buss the shot”, the still-shaken man had recalled.
Hinds told this newspaper yesterday that her son had stated “is just suh” before he was shot by the bandit. The bandits had escaped on foot through an alleyway that leads to Hadfield Street.
Investigations are continuing.
