A PLAISANCE man was shot and injured early yesterday morning by stray bullets when a man opened fire at another at the Guinness Bar at the Plaisance Railway Embankment and Victoria Road.The man who was a bystander has been identified as Jomo Lewis, 34, and he was in a critical but stable condition in hospital up to press time.

Police reported that at about 02:45 hrs yesterday two men were involved in an argument on the Plaisance Railway Embankment, when one of them discharged rounds at the other, which missed the intended target and struck bystander, Jomo Lewis, of Plaisance Squatting Area, ECD, to his shoulder and abdomen.

Reports said that a crowd of people were liming as usual at the drinking spot when gunshots erupted.

At the scene yesterday persons reported hearing about three shots, two of which directly struck Lewis, who collapsed to the ground and was conveyed to the hospital for medical attention.

When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday, it was as if nothing had happened there and persons were unwilling to engage the media about the shooting.

The suspect has not yet been arrested but investigations are in progress.