A 22-YEAR-OLD man is now hospitalised with gunshot wounds to his left foot and buttock after he was robbed of his jewellery in Tucville on Wednesday night. A police statement confirmed that at about 21:30hrs, Ruben Hopkinson of Festival City, Georgetown, was cycling along Eden Street, Tucville, when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
The perpetrators demanded his jewellery and Hopkinson put up a resistance and was shot to his left foot and buttocks. The men took away his jewellery valued at $240,000 and escaped.
No one has been arrested and investigations are ongoing.