A five-year-old girl has been hospitalised at the Linden Hospital Complex with a bullet lodged in her throat.
Reports are that on Thursday, at about 13:15h, Police were notified by medical personnel from the Linden Hospital that a child was at that medical institution with a “warhead lodged in her throat.”
According to Police, at about 22:00h on Wednesday, 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.
According to the mother, at about 08:00h on Thursday, she saw 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, Police said.
Investigations have revealed that the child has a small entry wound on her neck.
Police said the child resides in an apartment which is on the northern-eastern bottom flat of a two-storey concrete structure. There is a wooden wall to the western side which separates Caesar’s apartment from the front apartment, which is occupied by a man by the name of Shemar.
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 residents.
Investigations have so far revealed that a neighbour claimed that at 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 the voice of a little child crying.
Police have said that, as investigations continue, they are attempting to locate Shemar.
