The Wismar man who was shot by a police officer is beginning to question when he will have his day in court as he now feels frustrated over the sloth of the police in taking the perpetrator to court.
Yesterday, Kerwyn Greene, of 433 One Mile Wismar said that police have been telling him that the officer who shot him was under close arrest at Eve Leary and the file on the matter was at the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions awaiting advice.
Greene said that last Tuesday he was told by a police officer that his shooter was to make a court appearance that day, but it did not happen.
Pointing out the sluggish manner in which the police are treating the matter, Greene said that even though he made the effort to have his medical filled out the police are still to pick the document up from the medic at the Linden Hospital.
On October 2, Greene was shot while trying to be a peacemaker in an incident between his cousin and a policeman.
According to a police press release issued on the incident, around 10:30 hrs, Greene, 29, who allegedly was armed with a gun, was shot in his left upper chest during a scuffle with a member of the Guyana Police Force at Wismar, Demerara River.
But Greene is saying he did not have a gun at anytime. Yesterday, he told Stabroek News that he was at home washing his clothes when he saw his cousin, Mark Moses, run into the house and grab a cutlass.
His cousin told him that he was slapped by a man with a gun.
According to Greene the officer and his cousin had a year-old argument over a girl brewing between them. “I left to go out and saw the man pointing the gun and it snapped,” Greene said.
Greene added that he told his cousin to go back in the yard and as he approached the officer and asked why he slapped his cousin “he raise it [the gun] to fire and the gun snapped”. Greene said that he had his four-year-old daughter with him during all this.
“After he snap the gun again I say me and you ain’t have a problem,” Greene continued.
At no time did the officer say anything to him the man pointed out. He added too that the officer did not identify himself as a member of the Guyana Police Force.
Greene said he made another attempt to approach the man to talk.
This time he was holding his daughter in his arms and the officer once more pointed the gun and fired one shot to his chest.
As he was on the ground bleeding, the officer ran away and his cousin ran behind the man.
Greene said that it was a friend who assisted him in getting to the Linden Hospital where he was transferred shortly after to Georgetown.
While on his way to Georgetown, Greene said the ambulance broke down and it wasn’t until some 20 minutes later that a passing car offered to take him to the hospital.
Greene had to undergo surgery to have the bullet which was lodged in his back removed.
When this newspaper contacted the police yesterday the response was that the file on the matter was with the Director of Public Prose-cutions awaiting advice.