Wounded but not out
Surviving victim in brazen Porus gun attack welcomed home
THERE WERE cheers and celebrations on Tuesday as a surviving victim of Saturday’s shooting incident, which claimed two lives in Porus, Manchester, returned home from hospital.
He was shot multiple times in the brazen attack but is grateful he has escaped with his life, even though a woman and a male bar operator were not so lucky.
The Gleaner caught up with him shortly after his release, in high spirits, smoking a cigarette as he sat on a table outside a bar off the Porus main road, surrounded by family and friends.
He has been reduced to two crutches and a heavily bandaged left leg, but being elated to be home, the urge came over him to puff a cigarette and relax.
“Mi glad to be home! All mi did waa do a lef di hospital ‘cause too much somebody did a dead round mi,” he shared, requesting not to be named.
The exact spot where he sat sharing how grateful he was to be alive, cracking all sorts of jokes, was where his bitter encounter unfolded a few days ago.
The Old Trafford Sports Bar, otherwise dubbed the ‘war zone’, is the battlefield for late-night domino clashes. However, neither he nor those who were playing dominoes with him around 10:20 p.m. that fateful night envisioned it being transformed into a literal war zone.
“There is no war thing here. Yah suh nuh hot. We call it we likkle war zone. Not even fight bruk yah suh. A just people weh never fi deh bout, come bout. You know seh people will give trouble and come round you, simple as that. Is just di other day after 2 o’clock inna di night, me and mi police brethren from (Kingston) out here a play domino,” he said.
“Mi glad to be home! All mi did waa do a lef di hospital ‘cause too much somebody did a dead round mi.”