Five shot as suspect fires into crowd at football final

Police are investigating a shooting incident at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue on Tuesday night in which five persons were shot during a football game.

Police reported that at about 23:20h, the injured identified as

Oriley Small, 25, of Charlestown; Dwayne Wharton, 17; Jason Marks, 17; Terrence Edwards, 15; and Jamal Thomas, 17; all West Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, were at a football final at the facility.

There, an argument ensued over a wager between Small and the suspect who had sponsored one of the teams.

During this time, it is alleged that another man handed the suspect a gun which he fired several times into the crowd which had gathered, resulting in injuries to spectators. Then the suspect fled the scene.

Sometime later he was accosted by another man who assaulted him and has since been admitted to a city hospital.

Wharton, Edwards and Thomas are patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing injuries to their left leg, buttocks and chest, while Small was shot in his knee and Marks in his buttocks.

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