An Albouystown man was shot on Thursday evening when two men rode up on bicycles and began firing in his direction.
Although Anil Sooklall was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) afterward for a gunshot wound to his right foot, he subsequently left the institution after he apparently became fearful of being arrested.
Sooklall, 31, a labourer of 61, James Street, Albouystown, was shot around 6:45pm on Thursday along James Street, police said in a statement.
The injured Sooklall was rushed to the GPH, where he was admitted, but he walked out of the ward without the knowledge of the staff on duty. A police source told Stabroek News that Sooklall was a wanted man and he may have been afraid that he would have been apprehended.
A resident of James Street told Stabroek News that Sooklall was spotted in the area but added that no one knew his whereabouts.
Sooklall was the second man to have been shot in Albouystown in less than two days.
Around 12am on Wednesday morning, Anton Johnson, 22, of Independence Boulevard, Albouystown, was wounded in what he believed to be an attempt on his life.
Johnson told Stabroek News that the shooting had its genesis in a misunderstanding among friends, with whom he had been liming at James Street.
“We were all making jokes and troubling one another and like he start to take it serious on me,” Johnson said. He said the man got “agitated” and made a phone call and then left.
“All of a sudden like 10 minutes [later] he come back with he friend in a car and start approaching me and I see like he got something he was pulling out of he waist so I start to run,” he said. After he started to run along James Street, he recounted, the man opened fire on him. “I running and he firing like he mad behind me and I scared, scared. I even fall down couple times and bruise up me foot. I run for me life and he keep shooting behind me,” Johnson said.
He said the gunman fired six shots at him but only two caught him in his left leg. Johnson said he was convinced that the attack was an execution attempt as the gunman later told several of his friends that he wants “to put a bag over” his head.
