Police accidently shot a Corriverton businessman around 11:15 am yesterday at No 77 Village while trying to arrest a man who was beating and trying to attack persons with a cutlass.
Mohamed Inshan, 32, of Queenstown, Corriverton sustained injuries to his left leg and was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital. He was immediately referred to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he remains a patient.
His wife, Angel Nasrudeen told Stabroek News that her husband’s condition was listed as serious because his “bones broke into pieces and the foot is still bleeding.”
She said doctors were “trying to stop the bleeding” and they told her that it was not wise to remove the bullet at this stage.
Police received a report about 26-year-old Anthony Dayaram’s behaviour and had gone to the area to arrest him when he reportedly ran into a bushy yard.
Residents told Stabroek News that the police fired a shot at Dayaram, a cane-harvester of No 77 Village and he hid deeper in the bushes. The police then went in the other direction and fired the second shot which missed him again and struck Inshan.
Police in a statement said that ranks were responding to “a report of a man armed with a cutlass and behaving disorderly and using indecent language…”
The release said too that when the police arrived the man attacked them with a cutlass. This “caused the police to resort to the use of force and a round was discharged…” and struck Inshan. Dayaram has been arrested as police continue investigations.
Inshan who is building a house was with the contractor and his 15-year-old son cutting a piece of wood in the veranda when he was shot.
Nasrudeen told this newspaper that the three were not paying any attention to what was taking place because the man was in the habit of misbehaving.
She said her son had just gone into the house for a tool and the contractor noticed when her husband collapsed to the ground and asked him what was wrong. Inshan only realized he was shot when he saw the blood.
The woman said residents informed the police that they had shot her husband. The police, she said, responded that the residents should call a taxi to take the person to the hospital.
Nasrudeen said that Inshan left her at their stall at the Skeldon Market to go to the construction site and shortly after she received a message that he had been shot. When she got to the hospital a senior police officer was there conducting investigations.
The angry woman lamented that the police “can’t be shooting in the public like that… it was after 11 am and school children could have been on the road. The police are supposed to be protecting people…”
Meanwhile, residents said that Dayaram was sitting on a stand on the road with the two cutlasses when someone apparently interfered with him.
They said the man started running after people, threatening to chop them. He also slapped a woman who had come out of her yard to defend her son.
He then ran into his yard and attempted to chop a relative when another son and his friend pulled her out of the hammock and she escaped.
There are also reports that someone pelted him with a brick and burst his forehead and that two men took away the cutlass and inflicted a beating on him. He was running out of the yard with another cutlass when the police arrived.
