Over a week after he was shot in the head, Michael Woolford has been moved to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) High Dependency Unit (HDU) with the bullet still lodged there.
Speaking with Stabroek News on Monday and again yesterday, his distressed daughter Claudia Mohamed said he was still unresponsive and was being fed by way of a tube.
Woolford, 68, of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, was shot while at the Cummings Lodge Secondary School when someone fired at two men engaged in an altercation. As a result, his left eye was removed.
Woolford’s relatives had earlier informed this newspaper that he was scheduled to undergo a surgery in order to remove the bullet. But they later said that doctors had informed them that there is nothing they can do because of his poor health. In addition to this, the injured man’s daughter revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer after he was shot. Nevertheless, the family is still hoping that Woolford will survive.
The police, in a statement on the shooting, had said two men, one of whom was armed with a cutlass, were involved in an altercation at Industry Crown Dam, East Coast Demerara around 9 pm last week Wednesday when a driver stopped, exited his vehicle and discharged several rounds in their direction. One of the bullets struck Woolford, who was on duty at the nearby school.
The two men involved in the altercation, Vincent Williams, 35, and Doodnauth, 53, both of Industry Crown Dam, were treated at the GPH. The shooter, meanwhile, fled.
