SOURCES from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and at least one relative have confirmed that 18-month-old Travis Rudder Jnr. who was shot five times early Sunday morning is still in the theatre but is alive and in a stable condition.

Police sources yesterday indicated that they have already received names of persons who may have had something to do with the execution-style shooting of Travis Rudder, a miner of Lindley

Avenue, Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara.
Locating the suspects should not be difficult since from all indications they are all persons who have been of interest to the police. Sources outside the Police Force have also suggested that one man who was recently freed of a murder charge could be one of the suspects since he is said to be associated with the dead man.
The baby’s mother, Mawanza Gill, Rudder’s fiancée, is also out of danger and said to be recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. A relative of the injured woman said yesterday that when she visited the hospital Gill was bleeding from the foot and doctors were getting ready to attend to her.
Meanwhile, yesterday the mother of Travis Rudder Snr., who was gunned down execution-style in his bed, was upset at media reports that her son was found not guilty of the murder of his then 14-year-old girlfriend Donnis King in 2011.
The woman spoke of a period when someone tossed a Molotov cocktail at her house and shot-up her car. She said those things were never covered by the media but they are now seeking to bring up an ‘old’ story.

On Sunday a gunman elevated himself on an old wheelbarrow and walker and fired shots through a bedroom window where Rudder, his son and girlfriend were sleeping on

a bed.
The dead man’s mother was sleeping in another room of the one-flat house at the time of the incident which took place just after 01.30 hrs.
The police were able to recover twenty-four 9mm spent shells from the scene of the shooting after combing the area for clues.

By Leroy Smith