Labourer accused of brandishing firearm allegedly shot by Police

Twenty-five-year-old Shemar Bob, a labourer of Lot 1 Mandela Avenue, Phase 1 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was allegedly shot by Police after he was seen brandishing a firearm on Friday.

Shemar Bob being dragged into a bus after being shot

Reports are that the man along with his cousins were celebrating his uncle’s 75th birthday when a group of men rushed into the yard shouting “police” followed by men in uniform.
In fear of what might be happening, the occupants of the Mandela Avenue home ran for shelter. It was then that the injured man’s cousin recalled hearing about seven gunshots. Upon getting closer to where the sounds were emanating, he saw his cousin lying in a pool of blood and begging for his life.
“When I heard the shots, I run around to see what was happening, when I look me cousin on the ground can’t walk, and it’s like he is paralysed from his waist down already and begging Officer Cosbert to don’t kill him. Even though he told him that the man [the police] still shoot him”.
Bob’s cousin said after seeing his cousin in that state, he too joined in to beg for his life.
“After I beg, Officer Harris that I went to school with said okay and they put him on the bus and they took him to the hospital”.
Upon arriving at the hospital, the man’s family said they were denied access to see him.
“When I reach the hospital, they told me we can’t see him, so I wait until the bus coming out now and I asked them why I can’t go and see my cousin and they told me ‘he deh in deh’. Apparently, the next man that went on the bus that the police catch, he was showing me signs that my cousin didn’t make it. I couldn’t confirm if he died because they didn’t want me to go in the hospital”, Bob’s cousin reminisced.
The injured man’s family said as far as they know, the man does not have any criminal record.