THE miner, who shot and injured his wife, Karen Kerr during a misunderstanding early Friday morning has turned himself in to the police accompanied by his lawyer.
He is in police custody pending investigations and his licensed gun has been lodged with the police. Meanwhile, his wife is recovering at the Woodlands Hospital.
Karen Kerr, 33, of  309 Rohinital Street, Prashad Nagar,  was shot and injured early Friday morning at about 02:30 hrs during a misunderstanding with her husband.
Her sister, Carolina Welcome told the Guyana Chronicle she was in bed on the ground floor of the house when she heard gunshots and thought the neighbours were being robbed.
She got up, after a while, upon hearing thumping sounds coming from the upper flat of the building and ventured outside through her back door and started to walk up her sibling’s back steps but turned back as she was unsure what was happening.
Welcome said she returned inside her apartment on the lower flat of the house and it was after sometime, glancing through her front window she saw her brother-in-law by the gate.
She said, after a few minutes she ventured outside and he said he had just shot her sister but the latter was not going to die.
Welcome said she only saw her sister when the police arrived and another sibling put her in a vehicle when she was being transported to the hospital.
The woman said she does not know what the couple was arguing about since their bedroom is soundproof but the miner returned home on August 5, 2011, from a mining concession he operates in the interior.
Kerr is the mother of four.