Jermaine Haynes, a 32-year-old construction worker of Little Diamond Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD), is currently a patient at the Diamond Regional Hospital, where he is nursing a gunshot wound sustained to his lower right leg after being shot by police ranks who had responded to a report of domestic assault.
Police have said they had received a report that Haynes was assaulting his 33-year-old wife, thus a team was dispatched to the area.
“Upon arrival, contact was made with the woman, who was at the time seeking refuge from her husband at a neighbour’s residence. She related to the ranks that the suspect dealt her a slap, broke a table in the house, and threatened to kill her, which caused her to run out of the house,” the GPF has said.
Two ranks who then went over to Haynes’s residence were attacked, and a scuffle ensued between Haynes and the ranks, during which he held on to the 9MM pistol that one of them was carrying and managed to disarm him.
Upon seeing this, another rank drew his service pistol and discharged two rounds in Haynes’s direction. Hit on his lower right leg, Haynes was reportedly subdued, arrested, and taken to the Diamond Regional Hospital, where he was treated and admitted under guard.
An investigation of this incident is underway.
