Police in Regional Division #10 are investigating an incident involving a five-year-old child of Wismar, Linden who was found with a bullet lodged in her throat.
A suspect who lives near to her is being sought.
At around 1.15 pm yesterday, medical personnel from the Linden Hospital Complex reported that a child was at the medical institution with a ‘warhead lodged in her throat’. As such, detectives immediately visited the five-year-old child who was receiving medical attention in the Emergency Room at the Linden Hospital.
The child’s mother, a 29-year-old unemployed woman, was also contacted by detectives and interviewed. According to the mother, at about 10 pm on Tuesday, she put the victim to bed and while she was trying to put her eight-month-old baby to sleep, she heard the victim screaming.
She went to the victim and enquired what was wrong and the child said that she had hit her throat. The mother applied ‘Petroleum jelly’ to the child’s throat and put her back to sleep. The woman said that around 8 yesterday morning, she saw her five-year-old daughter crying, so she examined her throat and saw that it was swollen. She then took her child to the Mackenzie Hospital, where she learnt that a bullet was lodged in the victim’s neck. There was a small ‘entry’ wound on the neck.
The victim was admitted and is due to undergo surgery to remove the bullet.
Investigations revealed that the victim resides in an apartment, which is on the northern/eastern bottom flat of a two-storey concrete structure. The apartment has one bedroom, a kitchen and a small living room. There is a wooden wall on the western side, which separates the victim’s apartment from the front apartment, which is occupied by a male by the name of Shemar.
A small circular hole was seen on the said wall, suspected to be a bullet hole. The scene was processed and photographed. No spent shell was found and no one was present in the front apartment when the Police checked.
Checks are currently being made to locate Shemar, as investigations continue.
