A No. 78 Village, Corentyne salesman is now in critical condition at the New Amsterdam Hospital after he was shot in a drive-by attack on Monday night.
Shazam Bacchus, 23, was awaiting transportation to go home on the No. 72 Village Public Road, Corentyne, at about 8pm when the attack occurred.
Police said two men approached him in a car and one of them discharged a round from a firearm that hit him to his chest. The men escaped.
Bibi Bacchus said yesterday that after being shot her son was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital and later transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital. The mother explained her son sustained injuries to his intestines and a kidney. She added doctors performed a minor surgery on her son and removed a section of his damaged intestine. The bullet, she noted, is still lodged in his body.
According to the mother, Shazam told her from his hospital bed that while he was waiting on taxi a black car drove by and someone shouted “Yo.” When he turned to look he was shot.
The woman and other relatives were clueless about the motive for the attack and they believe that it was a case of mistaken identity.
Bacchus, called “Short Man,” works as a salesman at a grocery in the Skeldon market. He had left his employers home at No. 72 village when he was attacked.
