…left Starlite Drive In for Werk-en-Rust home, ended up in Guyhoc Park
Two men are currently nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after being allegedly shot by ranks from a police patrol.
Word from some officials is that the shooting was done by a Joint Services patrol.
Courtney Higgins, 22, of George Street, Werk-en-Rust, who was the passenger, was twice in the right leg and once in his right arm.
Trevor Belle also known as “Bruck up”, 31, of Henry Street, Werk-en-Rust, who was identified as the driver, was shot twice to the back. His condition is listed as critical but stable, and he is presently a patient in the High Dependency Unit of the GPHC.
Hospital officials disclosed yesterday that the bullets barely missed Belle’s vital organs. Yesterday Belle was receiving intravenous drips and oxygen in the hospital.
Higgins, who is a patient in the Male Medical Ward, yesterday told this newspaper that he was returning from Starlite Drive-In around 03:00hrs when the patrol saw them. 
He said that Belle had borrowed the vehicle from a friend to attend the show.
According to the man, the vehicle which he described as “heavily tinted”, began trailing them.
The police said that the vehicle had no number plates. Higgins told the reporter otherwise.
Higgins further stated that Belle kept driving since the vehicle was tinted and it did not appear to be one used by law enforcement officers.
He said that they drove through the Univeristy of Guyana access road and into Sophia, then along Dennis Street to ‘B’ Field Sophia and into Guyhoc Park.
He explained that they were in the vicinity of Guyhoc Park when the occupants in the vehicle just opened fire on them.
“We were at Guyhoc when they start shoot up the vehicle…They ain’t had on no siren; nothing,” said Higgins.
He said he was shot first – the bullet hit him in the leg. He said that he was trying to tell the driver to stop, but by that time the driver too was shot, in the back.
Higgins said they stopped the car and three “black clothes” police dragged them out and placed them on the road.
“We were bleeding…and they dragged us out of the car and put we on the road and searched the vehicle,” Higgins said.
Apparently nothing was found in the vehicle and the men were subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment.
Higgins said that neither he nor the driver had anything illegal in their possession. He also added that nothing was thrown in a canal, as the police are alleging.
The police in a press release stated that the occupants of the car threw something into a canal as the patrol closed in.
Given their addresses, there was no explanation for the men being in Guyhoc Park. And given the hour, Higgins did not state the reason for being there.
Meanwhile Higgins’s mother, Kay, said that her home was searched by the lawmen early yesterday morning.
The woman told this publication that the police came and said that they were going to search her home for any illegal item.
She complied and they entered her home. Nothing was found and they left, she said. Kaieteur News understands that a statement was taken from Higgins.
The matter is presently being investigated by the police.
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