Williamsburg gunshot victim succumbs

Ashmin Mahadeo

Ashmin Mahadeo who was shot on October 1 at her Williamsburg, Corentyne house, succumbed last evening at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

The 30-year-old Lot 25 D Williamsburg, Corentyne, resident was shot in the back of her neck resulting in the bullet exiting the lower area of her jaw on October 1. Since then, she had remained hospitalized in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. However, she was recently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where she died yesterday just around 7.30 pm.

Her relatives had said that doctors informed them that Mahadeo was paralyzed as a result of the injury.