POLICE are still analyzing video footage of the crime scene, but two persons are assisting with investigations into the shooting on Sunday of a 15-year-old apprentice mechanic.The police have also impounded a car looking very much like the one seen in the video footage, right down to the licence plate.

Jahmaul Lewis of Wren Avenue, South Ruimveldt, was shot in the face at his place of employ, just a corner away from where he lives.

A student of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School, Lewis reportedly worked at the mechanic shop every day after school for about an hour.

Reports are that on the day in question, he’d just returned from buying plantain chips, and was sitting on his bicycle when three armed men stormed the mechanic shop, which also serves as a base for Green Ice Taxi Service.

The incident reportedly occurred at about 14:00hrs.

Lewis, who was apparently the first person the bandits encountered, was reportedly told to lie on the ground, but having failed to comply, he was shot.

He and his fellow employees were robbed of their ‘cell-phones’ and a small amount of cash, after which the suspects escaped in a car.

Employees say they initially thought it was a prank when the bandits descended on the place; but the perception immediately changed when Lewis was shot and they were relieved of their valuables.

According to a relative, the teen has since successfully undergone surgery, and is currently recovering in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.