Bernadette Campbell who was shot and robbed while in a Route 44 bus at Plaisance three months ago, died on October 20, relatives have confirmed.
Campbell, 39, of Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara was shot to her abdomen, right shoulder and left leg on Tuesday July 29, by two gunmen who robbed her. She was a passenger in the front seat of a bus which had stopped at Victoria Road, on the Plaisance railway embankment.
Sitting next to Campbell was 20-year-old Dexter Carr, of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, he was also injured.
While Carr was treated and released from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where they were both rushed, Campbell had remained hospitalised and her condition worsened. She spent two months in the High Dependency Unit, before being transferred to the GPH’s Female Surgical Ward, until she was released in earlier October.
A friend of the family informed this publication that Campbell got even worst after her release from the hospital. That friend who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said that Campbell was not eating, nor did she talk much following the ordeal. Moreover that friend stated that on two occasions this month Campbell had to be rushed to the hospital. “The next thing I hear is Bernadette dead,” that friend lamented.
A statement was taken from the woman while she was hospitalised, but she remained tight-lipped about the incident.
That friend said now that Campbell is dead, why she was attacked and who the attackers were may not be known.
All efforts to secure a comment from Crime Chief Leslie James for an update on the investigation proved futile.
