POLICE Constable Charles is now being sought by his colleagues while his 19-year-old girlfriend Shaquina Massiah of Albouys Street, Albouystown is hospitalised with a gunshot wound to her abdomen.The Guyana Chronicle was informed that Constable Charles and two other ranks from his squad had abandoned their foot patrol duties in the Albouystown community and found themselves in a house where the girl was staying.
According to information received, Charles and the young woman are intimate friends and he would usually visit the home whenever he is on patrol duties in the community.
Yesterday just before lunch the man and his friend were in the house and according to sources close to the investigation, Charles who is the rank authorized to carry the service revolver was at the time playing with the weapon inside the house when it reportedly went off ‘accidently’ and the woman was shot in her abdomen.
She was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where doctors made efforts to have the bullet removed.
Meanwhile as the woman was being rushed to the hospital, the rank who was in possession of the gun dropped it and sprinted from the home and up to late last evening was not located by police investigators.
The weapon the man was carrying at the time according to the police was a .38 revolver, property of the Guyana Police Force.
The other two ranks who were in the building with him at the time of the incident were placed under close arrest and are assisting the police with their investigations.