A six-year-old girl of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara has been hospitalised in a critical condition, allegedly with a gunshot wound to the head.
The police said in a press release that they are investigating what caused the six-year-old to be injured sometime between 22:30 hrs on Saturday and 05:30 hrs yesterday.
According to the police press release, a team from CID Headquarters visited the child’s home at Mon Repos, where she lives with her parents and sister, yesterday morning and examined the scene, a bedroom of a flat, unpainted wooden house. Detectives observed a suspected gunshot entry in the zinc, which appeared to have projected inwards in the vicinity of the child’s bed, the release said. Reddish stains, suspected to be blood, were on the bed, it added, but no spent shell was seen in or around the house.