A Linden man is now critical after masked bandits invaded his Kara Kara home, shot him and pummelled his wife and their young son early Monday morning.
Godfrey Marks, 43, who was shot to his left shoulder, is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). His wife, Susan Marks, and their nine-year-old son, Godfrey Marks Jnr, were both gun-butted to their heads during the attack, which occurred at about 3am. The boy, who was hit while trying to stand up for his mother, sustained a fractured skull.
Nothing was taken in the attack and Susan Marks yesterday told Stabroek News that it appeared that her family was mistakenly targeted by the bandits.
She said her husband, who is self-employed, was transferred to the GPH after being rushed to the Mackenzie Hospital. She explained that he was in a critical condition since the bullet is moving about. She also reported that he has no feeling in the lower half of his body.
Up to yesterday afternoon, the doctors were preparing him for a scan and Susan said it was likely be followed by surgery to remove the bullet.
Recalling the attack, she said she heard a noise in the house that sounded as if something had fallen.
“…When I ask me husband was happen there, he tell me is bandit,” she said, while noting that the man had ventured out on the verandah to see what was transpiring because he heard the dogs barking.
“They tell he don’t move and they shot he. My husband got shot and he fall down right away,” she added.
Susan said it was after the men heard her voice that they entered the upper flat of the house and rushed into her room. “When I attempt to get up, he push me back on the bed and start beat me up in my head and demand the ring I had on my finger and money. But I tell he `boy I ain’t got no money’ and he keep on asking for the ring. But he didn’t get nothing. He just lash me with the gun in my head,” Susan said.
However, her son was on the same bed with her sleeping and he was awakened after he heard his mother yelling. “He ask them, ‘Wah y’all doing my mother?
Leave me mother alone!’” Susan recalled. As a result, the men gun-butted the boy.
While two of the men were in the family’s home, Susan said, the other two were waiting at the neighbouring residence while attending to a boat and its engine.
She believed that although the men entered the riverain area by boat, they escaped on foot.
After the attack, the family was taken to the Mackenzie Hospital, where the boy received stitches for a wound on his head. His mother also received stitches to her head.
