Two taxi drivers are currently hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), both in critical condition, after they were attacked between Thursday night and yesterday morning in two separate carjackings in the city.
Wounded are Rawlyn Crum-Ewing, 38, of Lot 37-74 North Ruimveldt, George-town and Colin Ageday, 53, of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara.
Up to late yesterday afternoon, Crum-Ewing, who sustained several stab wounds, including one which punctured a lung and another that pierced his heart, was still unconscious after undergoing surgery.
Ageday, meanwhile, was admitted in the GPH’s High Dependency Unit, where he is nursing a single gunshot wound to his left upper back.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday afternoon, Crum-Ewing’s wife said she received a call around 4am from her husband, who informed of the attack.
She explained that she and her brother-in-law immediately rushed to Sheriff Street, in the vicinity of the Kamboat restaurant, where they found a bloodied Crum-Ewing on the road. He was picked up and rushed to the hospital.
Her husband has been unconscious since then and as a result she was unsure of the circumstances of the attack. His car, bearing licence plate HC 2964, was stolen and was not recovered up to yesterday afternoon. The woman said other drivers told her that Crum-Ewing was last seen picking up a tall man who sat in the front alongside him. It is unclear where they were heading but his relatives are hoping that surveillance footage from cameras near where he is believed to have been attacked will be retrieved and the perpetrator/s will be captured.
Meanwhile, in a press statement the police said Ageday was attacked by two men armed with firearms at “A” 3
Field, Sophia, at around 7:45pm on Thursday. He was shot to his back during the attack, in which the men took away his silver grey Premio car, bearing licence plate HC 3612, and escaped. It is unclear if the two attacks were related in any way.