JOE GRIND SHOT FOR VISITING WOMAN
Funds being raised for ill Sally Porteous
Aman was rushed to hospital last Sunday night after he was shot by a licenced firearm holder, allegedly over a female in Greenwich Farm in Kingston.
It is said that the 20-year-old man was shot by the licenced firearm holder, who was in a long-term relationship with a woman that is known to both men.
“A di man woman right out [man] fi years, but mi nuh know a wah gwaan — a come him come ketch him [injured man] wid di woman,” a resident from the community told THE STAR.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit confirmed the incident. The police said that the man was shot at about 11 p.m., after he was seen standing in a yard with a woman. Meanwhile, the injured man’s mother told THE STAR that she was sleeping when she got a call that her son was shot.
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“Is over a girl him get shot — after 11 going to 12 when mi was inna mi bed. Him conscious and him a talk though,” she said.
However, she did not know the person who shot him or any other details surrounding the incident.
“Him get shot inna him side. The shot still inna him belly, so it look like a that’s why dem carry him gone a theatre fi tek it out,” she told THE STAR.
“Him say him a feel some likkle pain inna him belly and so. I leave [the hospital], and mi niece call me and tell mi say dem a carry him go the operating theatre,” she added.
Another resident, who asked not to be named, told THE STAR that he was on his way home from work when he heard the gunshot.
“Mi woulda want fi know exactly wah mek di man shot him cause di youth cool like cucumber and nuh give no trouble,” he said.
He said that the man who fired the shot was arrested by police officers, who were called to the community following the incident.
AGoFundMe account has been started in a bid to raise funds to cover the medical expenses of the Custos of Manchester, Sally Porteous. Porteous is said to be critically ill. With a target of US$100,000 (J$12.6 million) a total of US$4,400 (J$554,000) has so far been raised from the donations of 33 persons in two days since the account was launched.
THE STAR gathers that she was hospitalised on Thursday after she took ill, while attending a meeting in Mandeville and was diagnosed with a ruptured aneurysm.
In the description on the GoFundMe page, it was noted that the surgery required isn’t available in Jamaica, and that she urgently needs financial support to deal with medical expenses being incurred.
However, another update on the page suggested that an operation was done.
“The procedure is finished. It went very well. They coiled the big bleeding one ... the others not expected to progress. She will be in intensive care for 10 days and the hospital will be monitoring her carefully,” it read.