The police were up to yesterday afternoon working to enhance camera footage obtained in an effort to identify the man who shot and injured a young couple on Saturday evening.
Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken informed Stabroek News yesterday afternoon that while no arrest was made as yet, investigators have been working to develop the closed circuit television footage which they obtained from the area where the shooting occurred.
Nineteen-year-old Johnnick LaRose of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara and his girlfriend, Troyan Barton, 17, were both shot around 8.45 pm on Saturday while in Shirley Field Ridley Housing Scheme when they were approached by a lone gunman.
LaRose sustained a single gunshot wound to his left cheek while Barton was shot to the back of her neck. They were both rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where they underwent emergency surgery before being transferred to the wards. Both of their conditions were listed as stable up to yesterday afternoon.
When this newspaper spoke to LaRose from his hospital bed on Sunday, he said, “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.”
He said he quickly turned his face as the man fired.
“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,” he said, adding 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.”
LaRose said he had no idea who the man was and why he would have 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.
