An Alberttown man was up to press time last night hospitalized with gunshot wounds to his body after a gunman opened on fire on him as he sat outside a Waterloo Street drinking spot.
Reports are that the shooter and his accomplice were arrested by police minutes after the shooting which occurred just before 9 pm. The exact details of the incident are unclear but Joseph Baker a 29-year-old shop owner of Fifth Street Alberttown sustained gunshot wounds to the left hip, right buttock and back. His condition is listed as stable.
When Stabroek News visited the scene of the shooting, residents and patrons recalled hearing a volley of gunfire. One resident said that he was in bed when he heard the first few gunshots, and on looking out saw a motor cycle heading up the street at a fast rate.
While speaking with this newspaper, the man said that the target, who usually hung out at the spot was sitting on a chair.
He erroneously thought that the man had managed to escape injury. According to those at the scene, police cornered the shooters and his accomplice on a motor cycle a short distance from the scene.
One of the bullets grazed the bonnet of a parked car and bullet holes were evident in the compound of John Lewis Styles.
At the hospital, the man’s worried relatives converged to find out about his condition.
According to the victim’s father Ronald Satamby, his son told him that he was on Waterloo Street when “police start busing shots and he ran and get hit.” The man asked how the police could be shooting behind people.
