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Dec 06, 2014 News
Oneika Lyttle, the mother of one who sustained a gunshot wound to the right shoulder
last Sunday when her neighbour went berserk and shot her before committing suicide, is yet to undergo surgery.
The 34-year-old woman is hospitalized in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Female Surgical Ward in a stable condition.
From her hospital bed, she noted that doctors at the medical institution have informed her, that they are waiting for the swelling on her shoulder to go down before performing the surgery.
The woman said that she was told that once the bullet is removed, she can return to her normal life without any pains.
Samuel LaFleur, a former Special Forces rank of Lot 193 Back Road, Prospect, shot Lyttle, before killing himself with a firearm he had snatched from one of his relatives who is a member of the Guyana Police Force.
According to information received, the now dead LaFleur placed the weapon in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He was pronounced dead at the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.
Yesterday, the wounded woman said that while painting her house at around 14:30 hrs on December 01, last, La Fleur suddenly began shooting at her premises.
“He was cursing his mother earlier and behaving bad… after that he started to shoot around. When he start shoot, I grabbed my son and we run upstairs to hide,” the injured woman recalled.
This newspaper was told that it was while Lyttle was hiding in her bedroom with her son, that she sustained the gunshot wound.
“The bullet pass through the wall and the chair and then hit me on my shoulder,” the mother related. She continued, “While hiding, I feel my body numb, numb that is when I realized I get shoot.”
The woman said that she had no problem with the former soldier. She believes that her neighbour “tripped out” since he had a drug habit and was also mentally unstable.
Kaieteur News was told that the now dead LaFleur fired 11 shots at Lyttle’s house.
At the scene, residents had related that LaFleur and one of his neighbours had not been on speaking terms for a while, and for unknown reasons his anger escalated last Monday. He however, did not harm that particular neighbour.
On the day of the shooting, this publication was informed that the former soldier had made calls to other relatives who sought to calm him down.
He then became verbally abusive and began pacing the road near his home.
According to reports, at that time, a cousin who is a police constable visited LaFleur’s home to pick up some clothing.
The enraged La Fleur, who had returned to the house, punched the police constable and after overpowering him, took his revolver. The policeman was reportedly forced to flee for his life after LaFleur pointed the gun at him.
A neighbour said that, “This man is an ignorant man. About two or three years ago he (LaFleur) had a problem whereby, he pelt down we house and break up all the windows, this happened to both neighbours, so nobody don’t have nothing to tell he.”
There were suggestions that LaFleur became mentally unstable after being jailed for killing another rank, and that his drug use aggravated his condition.
LaFleur, then a Special Forces rank, was only 26 when, on January 19, 1997, he shot and killed his fellow soldier, Corporal Lindon Alleyne, while serving with the Caricom contingent of the United Nations peace-keeping forces in Haiti.
This was just days before the Guyana contingent with the peace-keeping forces was due to return home at the end of their three-month assignment.
LaFleur shot Alleyne several times with a Beretta while the victim was fleeing. It was alleged that LaFleur was drunk, and had threatened Alleyne the previous day.
He was initially charged with murder, but later pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter. He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.
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