A Kitty resident was shot to his right hand yesterday morning in what is suspected to be an attempted execution.
Injured is Donald McKenzie called “Beige,” 24, of Stanley Place, Kitty. McKenzie, who was shot once to his right hand, was rushed to the Woodlands Hospital. However, he was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and was up to yesterday afternoon undergoing surgery to the hand.
The police said in a press release that the incident occurred at 08:30 hrs yesterday while McKenzie was walking along William Street, Kitty. “Two men on a motorcycle drove up and the pillion rider discharged rounds at McKenzie hitting him to the right hand before escaping,” the release stated.
According to the statement, the suspects and McKenzie had reportedly been involved in an argument previously in a beer garden.
When Stabroek News visited the scene persons were tight lipped about the incident. However, a vendor related to his newspaper that she had just opened for business when she saw the men circling. She said McKenzie saw the men while he was sitting outside a shop and ran for cover. However, one of the men gave chase and discharged several rounds at McKenzie before escaping.
“They did aiming for his head and when they done he call out to me saying to call a taxi he bleeding a lot,” the woman said.
Meanwhile, the injured man’s aunt, Simone Poole, said she did not know the suspects, but that they would visit a man who lives in the same yard with McKenzie.
She said the suspects visited the man on Sunday evening during which time there was a scuffle between them and another individual. That person was hit to the head with a beer bottle.
She said, “My sister turn and say y’all can’t bring that kind of behaviour here. This is a business place.” Just then, McKenzie arrived and reportedly saw one of the men pointing his finger in his mother’s face.
He became angry and there was an argument, following which the men left. According to the aunt, the men returned this morning and informed the family, “The war ain’t finish yet. It now start.” Less than 20 minutes later, she recalled, the said men rode along the street shouting that they just shot McKenzie at the shop.
“McKenzie normally is a peaceful person is just because he and this boy had a scuffle the night before that cause all this,” the aunt stated.
When Stabroek News approached the persons who operate the shop they refused to comment on the incident.
A police source confirmed that no one has been arrested as yet in relation to the incident.
