NINETEEN-year-old Edgar Blackman of 9A Tucville, Georgetown has allegedly recently escaped from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he had been receiving medical treatment while under guard pending investigations into robbery under arms.

In making his escape, Blackman is alleged to have scaled the East Street fence of the hospital compound and disappeared uninjured.
Sources said police officers consigned to guard the prisoner fired shots at, but failed to hit, their intended target. In the process, they damaged windows of the hospital.
While there seems to be several stories surrounding the prisoner’s escape, at least two persons from the institution have informed that the police officer left to guard the prisoner had fallen asleep, thus making it possible for the prisoner to escape. Another source told this publication that the prisoner was just being discharged when he made his escape after pretending he needed to use the washroom.