The young couple who were shot on Saturday night have been transferred to the wards at the GPHC where they are recovering.
Jhannick LaRose, 19, of Diamond Housing Scheme, and Trayvon Barton, 17, were reportedly in Shirley Field Ridley Housing Scheme around 8:45 pm when a man approached and shot both of them. LaRose was shot in the left cheek while Barton was shot in the back of her neck.
“Well I went in the shop and me girlfriend [Barton] was outside sitting on my bike. When I walk out back outside to go back to her to go home a …(dreadlocked) man just walk up to me and point he gun at me,” LaRose recalled yesterday from his hospital bed. He explained after the man pointed the gun at him he quickly turned his face at the moment the man fired the shot.
“After he shoot me he turn to my girl and shoot she on the bike just like that and then jump on a bike and ride away just so,” the boy said. He explained that he quickly grabbed Barton and they both ran to his father’s house
“I shout for he and tell he bring out the car and he run out and carry us to the hospital,” the man related. After surgery the two were transferred to the wards.
LaRose said that he has no idea who the man is and does not know why the man would’ve wanted to injure him or his girlfriend. “It look like he wanted to kill we too cause look is where he shoot me and then shoot her for no reason,” LaRose said. The police are currently investigating the matter.
