Antigua- Two Gray’s Farm men – one shot in the head – are hospitalised following a shooting in the area early yesterday morning.
While residents in the community were generally tight-lipped when the media visited the scene, one man said he heard the shots and saw a gunman running from the small Bridge Road house, where the incident occurred at about 12:15 am.
When the shooting ceased, Glentis Davis and Patrick McDonald were found injured.
Police spokesman Senior Sergeant William Holder said Davis, 25, had been shot in the head and back.
A relative said the bullet grazed Davis’ head and was lodged under the skin. He had to undergo surgery to have it removed. Bullets struck McDonald in one hand and his right side.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the man who said he witnessed the shooting, recalled that the shooter walked up to the house, pushed his hand through the window and opened fire on three men who were inside playing card games.
“Me min outside and somebody just dig dem hand through the window and buss some shots inside … Me run fuh cover… Dem boys nuh min deh in nutten with nobody,” the witness said.
The witness added that it was too dark to identify the assailant, who escaped.
Police combed the house for evidence and up to press time, no suspects were in custody.
Senior Sergeant Holder appealed to the public for help in solving the crime. He urged residents to report information to the Crimial Investigations Department (CID) at 462-3913/4 or the nearest police station.
Meantime, police are probing three separate home invasions that occurred between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.
A Turtle Bay couple reported that an armed bandit entered their home, and robbed them of an undisclosed sum of money Saturday afternoon.
The intruder, who was dressed in a pair of black pants and a maroon jacket, first held the 55-year-old wife at gunpoint and bound her hands behind her back.
Reports indicate that when her 57-year-old husband arrived home, the bandit also held him at gunpoint.
Having robbed the couple, the thief ordered the husband to drop him off in a remote area.
No one was injured.
Another family, this time from All Saints Road, reported being robbed at gunpoint in the pre-dawn hours of Monday.
According to police, two masked men forced their way into the house and beat two of the male occupants with guns.
They then robbed them of an undisclosed sum of money.
Both men had to be taken to Mount St John’s Medical Centre (MSJMC), where they were treated and discharged.
In the third incident, a woman, 29, of Grays Hill, reported that an armed, masked man broke into her home and held her at gunpoint.
The woman recalled that she and a female friend were inside when she heard her friend scream and saw her running.
The intruder held both women at gunpoint and robbed them of a quantity of cash before fleeing on foot.
The assailant is described as about five feet five inches tall, of medium build, and believed to be in his late 30s or early 40s.
Police said he was dressed in dark clothing at the time of the incident.
