–gunshot victim still hospitalised
Sixty-year-old Winston Andrews of Prashad Nagar who was shot in his abdomen and robbed of his car containing $1.3 million on April 14, is still a patient in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
There have been no arrests in connection with the incident.
Maria Andrews, the man’s wife, told Stabroek News yesterday that there have been no further developments in the case.
According to her, “nothing has happened since the incident, everything is just the same way.”
Andrews of 60 Omai Street, Prashad Nagar was shot in front of his home.
Recounting the incident, a relative of Andrews, who requested anonymity, had told this newspaper that the man was on his way home around 11.45 pm on April 14 when he was stopped by the police about 100 metres from his home. The relative said the police searched the man’s car and came across the large sum of money.
He said they asked Andrews where he had gotten the money from and he showed them a receipt after they told him that he should hurry and get home.
According to the relative, when Andrews went to open the gate to his yard, a lone gunman opened fire hitting him in the abdomen, before driving away with his Toyota Carina AT 192 motor vehicle PKK 474 containing the cash.
Andrews’s wife corroborated this stating that she had walked out to meet her husband, taking the receipt which was presented to the police after Andrews had told her on the phone that the officers were questioning where he had gotten the $1.3 million from.
She said after they had “straightened everything out”, her husband drove home, while she decided to walk back. Maria Andrews said that no sooner had she entered the house than her son called out to her to say that his father had been shot. She rushed back outside to find her husband lying in a pool of blood at the gate and the car gone. Three .45 rounds were recovered at the scene by the police, who said investigations are continuing.
