Damion Allicock’s wife is still traumatized after he was robbed and shot several times on Sunday night at his shop at River View Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
Allicock’s condition is currently unknown after undergoing surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital, the wife related. She added that Allicock was wearing several gold chains and eight rings at the time of the robbery and estimated his total losses to be $2 million including a sum of cash.
Police stated that according to Allicock’s 23-year-old wife, at about 22:30 hours Sunday night, Allicock was sleeping in front of his shop at River View and she was inside the shop selling when she heard a male voice shouting, ‘do not move.’
The woman told police that she looked outside and saw a man dressed in black with a black face mask and a gun in his right hand pointing at her husband. She said she reacted by immediately running out of the shop, leaving Allicock and the perpetrator.
Seconds after, she recalled, there were three loud explosions, which sounded like gunshots. She returned to the scene where she saw her husband on the ground bleeding from his abdomen, with his jewellery and money missing.
An alarm was raised and neighbours came and transported the victim to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he is currently hospitalised. He is nursing two gunshot wounds to his abdomen and one to his right foot.
Detectives who processed the scene recovered one 9mm spent shell. A suspect fitting the description and who was seen shortly after with a suspected gun in his hands in the Albouystown area, was arrested and is in custody as investigations continue.
