–Bullet grazes fellow passenger in abdomen

TWENTY-year-old Dexter Carr was a front-seat passenger in minibus BRR 4735 en route to Georgetown from Plaisance Tuesday night, and seated next to 39-year-old Bernadette Campbell when, at approximately 20:00hrs,tragedy struck.

According to Carr,who hails from Eccles, on the East Bank, as the vehicle exited Plaisance at Victoria Road and turned west onto the Railway Embankment Road, a passenger exited the bus, went to the front seat where he was sitting and fired three shots at Campbell. Unfortunately, one of the three bullets intended for Campbell grazed Carr in the abdomen.

Carr said that Campbell, who lives at Plaisance and was heading home at the time, had, mere moments prior to the incident, told him that she did not exit the bus at her destination because she believed that a man seated at the back of the vehicle was tracing her.

“As the bus turned out of Plaisance onto the Embankment Road, it made a stop to put out passengers. The woman then told me that ‘a man with a white ‘hoody’ at the back look like he gon rob me.’ But apparently, the man heard her, so the man then came out the bus, came to the front seat where me and the woman was sitting; the man then tell me to get out of the bus, but by the time I could have get out the bus, he already fired shots to the lady, and one of the bullet grazed me. The man then take her jewellery and belongings and ran,” a very distressed Carr managed to say.

Carr said that immediately after the shooting, the driver of the pink-and-white minibus disappeared from the scene, but thankfully, another minibus transported the injured woman to the station, leaving him behind.

“When they leave me behind, I then take a bus and went to UG Road, where one of my friends live. I then call my friend and told him that I was shot, and in a quick response, my friend came and took me to the hospital, where I was treated,” Carr said.

He explained that he had left Georgetown intending to visit a friend at Industry, ECD, but his unfamiliarity with the ECD villages had caused him to pass Industry and end up in Plaisance.
He was returning to the city when he became involved in the unfortunate incident.

Persons in the area have identified the gunman by name, and have described him as a known criminal, who has been responsible for most of the robberies occurring in the area.

A senior police official told the Chronicle that the named gunman has been on the police radar for a very long time, but he has always managed to elude capture.

Police investigations are ongoing.

(By Asif Hakim)