EUSTACE Thomas, a father of four of 596 East Ruimveldt was on Wednesday evening shot twice about his body after he allegedly spat on a man during an argument.

The Guyana Chronicle was informed that Thomas and the man earlier in the evening had an argument over some “hustle” which they both are engaged in, but for different persons and somewhere along the line the two had a disagreement over the competition associated with the “hustle”
During the argument, Eustace allegedly spat on the man with whom he was having an argument and that man later used his phone to inform someone that he was having problem with his competition. Shortly after two men arrived on the scene and opened fire on the father of four while he was standing on the corner.
The man attempted to run from his assailants even after being shot and attempted to make it to his home, which is located a few houses away but the two pursued him and began beating him on the road.
Speaking with this newspaper, his reputed wife Adonia Paul said that she was inside her home when she heard the shots and rushed upstairs to look through the window to see what was happening. The woman said that when she looked through the window she noticed two men beating up on someone but she was not immediately sure if it was her reputed husband, although she was getting the feeling that it was him.
She said that as she saw the men beating away on the person, she remembered that her reputed husband told her that he had an issue with someone earlier in the night and that he spat on him.
She recalled that she later saw the two men leave the injured man and dashed back to the vehicle in which they had come, as Eustace got up and began stumbling home.
Paul explained that she rushed down to the man and began asking him if he was shot but it was only after her mother shone a flashlight on him that they realised that he was injured to the leg and shoulder. He began washing off the blood from his face and other parts of his body and was then rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was immediately taken into surgery.
The men who showed up and discharged the rounds are known to the injured man, according his reputed wife. She said that the names were given to the police and the police have since launched an investigation into the matter.
The Guyana Chronicle was informed yesterday that two persons have been arrested by the police for questioning in the matter, including the young man who made the call after he was spat on.Leroy Smith