A MAN who reportedly has had a number of brushes with the law is now hospitalized after being shot yesterday morning in the head and foot during a confrontation with alert police officers in the Plaisance area. 

Quacy McPherson, 32,of Plaisance Squatting area, East Coast Demerara, according to a Guyana Police Force press release, moments before the confrontation with the police had pistol-whipped a woman he was attempting to rob in the Plaisance Market.
The woman, 51-year-old Hardai Rodrigues of Martyrs’ Ville, ECD, had put up a strong resistance which delayed the man’s robbery bid, causing the police to catch up with him. Rodrigues manages a stall at the Plaisance Market every Sunday.
During the incident at about 11:35hrs yesterday, the man who was reportedly armed with a .38 revolver pounced on the woman in the busy marketplace. She put up a fight and was struck to the head with the weapon.
According to reports, after the police arrived on the scene, the man, who was released from prison a short while ago, opened fire on them, forcing them to return fire, hitting him to the head and the foot. Despite being shot and placed under arrest, the man attempted to jump from the police vehicle in an attempt to dash for freedom.
However, this is not the first time the man was shot. Sometime ago, according to persons in the area, the man was shot by someone he attempted to assault with a cutlass.
Up to late yesterday, the man was a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital under police guard, while the woman he attacked was treated and sent away.

(By Leroy Smith)