Brittainy London, 16, of 66 East La Penitence, Georgetown, is nursing a wound to her right jaw inflicted by a flare gun while she was on her way home from classes on Thursday last.

Her condition is listed as stable and she is a patient in the Female Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Although an x-ray revealed that nothing was lodged in her jaw, she is awaiting surgery that will take place when the swelling subsides.

Speaking to this publication from her hospital bed, she said she was on her way home when, by the East La penitence bridge, she encountered a young man fidgeting with a flare gun.
He continued fidgeting with the gun, she warned him not to point it at her, and then it went off.
She was shot in the right jaw and was rushed to the hospital by public-spirited citizens.

Her mother, Caroletha London, who was beside her daughter at the hospital, said that her main concern is that her child gets well and she will seek advice later on what should be done.
The teen’s grandmother, Linda Rutherford, an Editor at the Guyana Chronicle, added that as usual, London was home from school at North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary, and left for Spanish lessons at about 16:30hrs.

Rutherford stated that next she heard from a relative that her granddaughter was shot and injured.