Nineteen-year-old Anzan Ledoux was shot to his face on Saturday at about 21:15h while trying to fight off two men who had reportedly attempted to rob his family at their Good Hope, East Coast Demerara residence. He is presently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where his condition is being monitored.
Ledoux’s mother, Gangadai Jairam, disclosed on Monday that family members were hanging out with some friends at her home when they observed two suspicious looking men approaching on a motorcycle.
“We see a bike coming from the street end so. The bike pass and they look at us and they ride away… It go up the street, and whilst going up de street, one of them turn back and see if we looking or what, and then they go around. In two minutes or so they reach round,” she recalled.
She said they noticed the men approaching with full speed, and suspecting that something was amiss, the family members and friends rushed to get inside her
The wounded 19-year-old Anzan Ledoux
yard.
“Me and meh son try fuh push them in (through the gate). My daughter plus the lil one is four years — the neighbour grandson, he was four years — trying to come in too,” Jairam detailed.
According to her, after realising that the family was suspicious of them, the pillion rider hopped off the bike and attacked her son at the gate as he was trying to close it.
Jairam said her son struck the man’s hand in an attempt to prevent him from opening the gate, and the angry man then pulled out a gun and fired a round at her son. Despite her son’s attempts to prevent being hit, the bullet struck him to his face and passed through his right ear.
The shot elicited screams from the entire family as they rushed to the young man’s assistance while the gunman and his accomplice made good their escape.
Ledoux was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery and several brain scans. He remains a patient at the GPHC, where his condition is presently being monitored.
Jairam said she fears her son might not be able to hear again through the affected ear, because of the severity of the injuries sustained.
A report was made to the Vigilance Police Station, where CCTV footage is being reviewed to aid in ongoing investigations. No one has as yet been arrested.
