…brother described him as ‘a mad man’

SHEMAR Lesperance, Kesi Carter, and Ebitoyo Pilgrim, all 11-year-old boys of the Stella Maris Primary School, and who all reside on the upper East Coast of Demerara, were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening after a drunk driver got into his vehicle and lost control, hitting the three Grade Six students in the process.The errant driver was identified as Eric Lewis, a general contractor. The Guyana Chronicle was informed that the man had been at the Seeta Bar on Station Street, Kitty, just before the accident.
Eye witnesses claim that the man left the bar, got into his vehicle, and the car careened from one side of the road to the other, hitting several vehicles, knocking the three boys down and ending up in a drain with one of the boys under the car.
The children were walking on the other side of the road with their teacher.
The driver of the car was taken into custody at the Kitty Police Station.
At the Georgetown Public Hospital, the teacher was very upset, as she observed that the three boys were all very promising students.
Last evening, the brother of the driver showed up at the hospital to comfort the relatives of the three boys. The man told the Chronicle that he was surprised at his brother’s action and described him as “a mad man”
He said that the situation is very hurtful and he hoped that the police would use the full force of the law in dealing with his brother.