The man who was shot several times by police on Friday night is still in a critical state in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital. Shane Hinds, 27, of Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, is in an unconscious condition officials at the hospital stated yesterday.
Hinds was said to have been shot by police more than five times while on a motorcycle. He and a bystander, Yonette Cummings, of 271 Thomas Street, were the two persons wounded after police opened fire on two people on a motorcycle. Cummings was discharged from the hospital but is still experiencing severe pain in her foot.
According to the police, around 7pm ranks of a mobile police patrol observed two men on a motor cycle, CG 1755, trailing a motor car along Thomas Street. The police said that they “challenged” the two men, whereupon the driver opened fire with a small arm on the police, who returned fire, hitting Hinds, the pillion rider. The rider escaped on the bike after Hinds was shot, the police reported.
