…stray bullet successfully removed from Linden child’s throat
A surgery to remove the stray bullet lodged in a five-year-old child’s throat at the Linden Hospital Complex on Thursday afternoon was successful, Police reported.
The child was initially taken to the medical institution at about 08:00h on Thursday. Having done an X-ray, medical personnel informed Police at about 13:15h that a “warhead” was lodged in the young girl’s throat.
An update from the Guyana Police Force informed on Friday that the child remains at the hospital in a stable condition.
Also, at about 17:15h on Thursday afternoon, Police arrested the child’s 24-year-old uncle at the Mackenzie bridge.
Shemar Caesar called “Mama,” a taxi driver of Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, was escorted to his apartment, which is next to his sister’s apartment, where a search conducted in his presence unearthed nothing of evidential value.
Caeser was then escorted to Mackenzie Police Station, where his hands were swabbed for gunpowder residue.
Police on Friday said that after the suspect was cautioned, he said, among other things, “Officer, is me friend (name withheld) bring de gun and gee me fuh keep last night and I try to tek out de magazine and de weapon go off.”
Police said that detectives conducted a video and audio interview with the suspect at Mackenzie Police Station.
On Wednesday evening at about 22:00h, the child was in bed at her Half Mile, Wismar, Linden home when she started to scream.
Her 29-year-old mother, Terriann Caesar, said she had put the child to bed and while she was trying to put her eight-month-old baby to sleep, she heard her daughter screaming.
Police said the mother said she went to the child and enquired what was wrong, and the child said she had hit her throat. The mother said she applied petroleum jelly to the child’s throat and put her back to bed.
At about 08:00h on Thursday, the woman reported seeing her five-year-old daughter crying again, and upon examining her throat, she saw that it was swollen. She then took her child to the Mackenzie Hospital, where she learnt that a bullet was lodged in her neck. Investigations revealed that the child had a small entry wound on her neck.
This publication understands that the child resides in an apartment which is on the north-eastern bottom flat of a two-storey concrete structure. There is a wooden wall to the western side, which separates Terriann Caesar’s apartment from the front apartment, which is occupied by the suspect.
According to Police, a small circular hole, suspected to be a bullet hole, was seen on the same wall. The area was searched, but no spent shell was found, and according to Police, no one was present in the front apartment when they went to the residence.
Investigations revealed that a neighbour claimed that some time around 22:00h, she had heard a loud explosion, but could not say from which direction the sound had emerged. However, just after hearing the explosion, she had heard a crying child. (G12)
