A bus driver died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), hours after he was shot at the Linden bus park, at Hadfield Street, Georgetown by two men.
Dead is Alvin Lorrimer, of Lot 184 Carter Street, Kara Kara, Linden.
Lorrimer, who is a former teacher and pastor, worked for the past 18 years as a minibus driver along the Linden to Georgetown route.
A police statement said the shooting occurred around 9pm, while Lorrimer was standing outside his minibus seeking passengers.
Two men, police said, drove up on a motor cycle and one of them discharged rounds at Lorrimer and they drove away.
Lorrimer was hit to his chest and left foot and was subsequently admitted to the GPH, where he succumbed while receiving medical attention.
A police source confirmed that no valuables were stolen from the dead man and his property was returned to his relatives.
Lorrimer’s wife was too traumatised to speak.
A relative of the man, however, said that after family members were informed about the shooting by another bus driver, they immediately left for the hospital, where they learned that he had already been taken to the operating theatre for emergency surgery. He subsequently died around 12.30 am while undergoing surgery.
When this newspaper visited the bus park yesterday, a number of bus drivers and other persons who knew him gathered as the news of his death spread.
While many were shocked about what transpired, others spoke about the type of person he was to everyone.
A vendor, who sells some distance away from where Lorrimer was shot, said she was still open for business when she heard a gunshot. “Before I could have get up to see what happen, I see he lay down on the road,” she related.
Another man, who identified himself as a bus conductor, said two men attempted to rob Lorimer recently but failed.
