A guard at the Cummings Lodge Secondary School is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was shot to his eye last night.
Michael Woolford, 68, a resident of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, was rushed to the public health institution shortly after 9:30 PM.
Stabroek News understands that Woolford and another security guard on duty were standing outside their guard hut when they saw two men, who reportedly are relatives, involved in a fight some distance away.
It was during the fight that another man arrived on the scene and the two men began to run, resulting in the third man whipping out his firearm and firing three shots, one of which hit Woolford to his eye.
According to Woolford’s daughter, Claudia Mohamed, based on the information she received, her father was shot by a law enforcer who responded to a report of the fight but Stabroek News was unable to confirm this. At the hospital, Mohamed after visiting her father, broke down in tears and lamented, “I tell this man stop wuk because he ain’t got nobody to mind but he hard ears.” She related that after she was informed about the incident and was told to go to the hospital she thought her father had fallen ill with blood pressure. “When I hear he at the hospital, I thought is some pressure or something because he is a sick man but I didn’t know is shoot he get shoot”, Mohamed wept.
Up to press time last night, while Woolford was in the Accident & Emergency Unit of the hospital, arrangements were being made to have him undergo a CT scan, since according to his daughter the bullet did not exit.
The other two men who were involved in the fight were also taken to the hospital since they sustained chops wounds and other injuries as a result of the fight.
