Attorney at law and former Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys is in police custody following what was said to be the accidental shooting of a football player last night.
Dwayne Ali, midfielder of the Western Tigers Football Club was shot in his shin around 11.30 last night as he sought to make peace between Gilhuys and another team player who had an argument over a ball. Gilhuys is the President of Western Tigers.
Gilhuys who called the shooting an “accident” was at the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost today giving his statement to the police. Ali meanwhile is a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The football team was returning from a game in Linden when the incident occurred. This is not the first time that Gilhuys was involved in a shooting incident. Four years ago, Gilhuys had shot a policeman on Woolford Avenue.
Thirty-three year old Mark George of Lot 2033 Humming Bird Street, Festival City was shot while on police patrol on Friday June 27, 2008. A police report had stated that around 11.15 pm a mobile police patrol observed a heavily tinted vehicle, PJJ 6832 parked along Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.
The police ranks stopped and approached the vehicle with a view to making checks, the police said, adding that ranks called on the driver of the vehicle “to turn on the lights of the vehicle and this resulted in a verbal exchange during which it is alleged that the driver discharged rounds at the police hitting Corporal 18352 George in his abdomen”. According to the release police returned fire hitting the vehicle, but the driver managed to drive away.
Gilhuys turned himself in the following day at the Brickdam Police Station accompanied by his lawyer where he was taken into custody and his firearm lodged. He was subsequently released on station bail.
Gilhuys had contended that the officers had never identified themselves and it was the police who had first opened fire which prompted him to retaliate in like manner. At the time of the shooting, the ranks were in an unmarked police vehicle but were dressed in navy blue police uniforms.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was consulted for advice on pronouncing definitively on the Woolford Avenue shooting incident. The DPP advised that no charges be brought.
