THE security guard at Cummings Lodge Secondary School, who was hit in his left eye on September 9 by one of several bullets fired by a man who
claimed to be a police officer, succumbed last Friday.Michael Woolford, 68, of Lot 5 Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, passed away in the High Dependency Unit at the Georgetown Public
Hospital with the bullet still lodged in his head and he never regained consciousness.
Meanwhile, his relatives are calling on the police to arrest the shooter.
Woolford, a father of 13, had cancer in his stomach and was also diabetic and the doctors could not do anything for him because of the
illnesses he suffered. The bullet had ruptured his eye and was lodged in his forehead.
He was hospitalised after being shot during a melee between two men at Industry Crown Dam, ECD, near the school where he was on duty.
Two men, one of whom was armed with a cutlass, were involved in a fight, and a man who was driving a car exited and discharged several
rounds in their direction before escaping.
At the time one of the men ran after chopping the other and a man stepped out of a car claiming that he was a policeman and fired several
shots. A stray bullet hit Woolford in his eye while he was sitting by the guard hut door.
The two men involved in the altercation, Vincent Williams, 35, and Doodnauth, 53, both of Industry Crown Dam, were also treated at the GPH.