Gun-toting ‘granny’ on $100,000 bail

The 69-year-old woman who reportedly discharged a loaded firearm at a handyman as he was cleaning weeds off a fence that separates his employer’s premises from her premises was on Friday released on 0,000 bail.

Leila Jagdeo appeared before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a charge which stated that on Thursday, March 30, at Lot 3 Ogle, East Coast Demerara, she discharged a loaded firearm at Brandon Collins, a maintenance worker attached to the Alpha Hotel at Ogle, East Coast Demerara, with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

The incident reportedly occurred at about 06:50h on the day in question, when the man was cleaning weeds off of a zinc fence which separates the hotel’s premises from the woman’s premises.

This newspaper understands that the woman told Police officials she reasonably believed Collins to be a bandit who was trying to jump into her yard, thus, being a licensed firearm holder, she did not hesitate to make use of her revolver, discharging in the direction of the young man one shot which pierced the fence and hit him to the abdomen.

Police authorities were alerted after Collins had been shot, and the injured man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he remains in stable condition. The case will continue on May 22.