In the presence of his partner and two young children, a vendor was on Tuesday shot in his home by a man with whom he had had an altercation just days before at a football game.
Oswald Wayne, 31, of Middle Road, La Penitence, identified his attacker as a man named “Toussaint,” whom he would see around from time to time.
Wayne, who is nursing a gunshot wound to his upper thigh, told Stabroek News that he had an encounter with Toussaint on Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. He said he bumped into the man, who then threatened him. During that encounter, Wayne said Toussaint had made a move to pull a gun from his waist but he backed away and left the scene.
On Tuesday morning, however, while Wayne was washing clothes, Toussaint returned.
The injured man recalled how his attacker was looking at him strangely as he passed his residence. Wayne said he approached the man and made inquiries about the reason for his odd behaviour, while pointing out that the two were familiar with each other. It was at this point, Wayne recalled, that the man left, and returned with a gun.
“He said he didn’t have any time, he would do what he had to do. He went for his gun. While I walkin’ in me yard now, a lil’ girl holla and seh, “Hey, watch he come back with a gun.” And I run upstairs. By the time I reach up, he done actually deh in the yard. When I reach by the second door a shot buss and I feel I get hit,” Wayne recounted.
Wayne related that after he realised he had been shot, he informed his partner, then proceeded to the hospital. The man, who escaped serious injury, told Stabroek News that the bullet had passed through his leg.
Wayne was on Tuesday visited by members of the Criminal Investigation Department, who took statements from him.
Up to last evening, the shooter had not yet been taken into custody.
