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Sep 29, 2013 News
Eion Simpson, the taxi driver who was struck by a stray bullet in front of Baroombar almost five months ago, succumbed to his injuries early yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
On April 22 last, Simpson, a father of two was standing on North Road in front of the strip club when he was hit by a stray bullet. A security guard attached to the adult club, 40-year-old Troy Anthony Adams was also shot. Adams was discharged from the hospital a few days later.
No one was arrested for the shooting.
Yesterday, at Simpson’s Lot 93 North East La penitence home, his mother, Jennifer Simpson, explained that her son was discharged from the hospital three weeks after he was shot.
“He was bed-ridden. He was paralyzed from his shoulders down. He could not move or feel anything. The doctor told us that the heat from the bullet burn his spinal cord,” the mother stressed.
She added that the day when her son was shot he left home as usual to work taxi in the vicinity of the strip club when they later received the tragic news.
“Since he came home from the hospital, we had to take care of him. Feed him and do everything. He could have talked because nothing happened to his brains,” the woman stressed.
She explained that although her son was discharged from the health institution, he had to be re-admitted on numerous occasions.
“We had to take him back to the hospital like about five or six times because his condition had gotten worse,” Simpson stressed.
She explained that last Friday, the 32-year-old was in and out of consciousness. “His eyes were opened but he couldn’t see. When you call him, he would make sounds. He was not eating too so we decided to take him back to the hospital and he was admitted there until he passed away.”
According to the grieving mother, since her son was shot no police officer visited her son to take a statement. “My son was shot and police didn’t come home nor do anything. Even at the hospital, the nurses didn’t do anything for him. They would just go and peep at him and move off. His wife had to do everything.”
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My sympathy to the family, may his soul rest in peace my fellow North East La Penitence homie. What a disgrace to know that the nurses would not attend to a patient, I guess they were paid off not to help him in no way, shape or form. These scumbags that they have there for police is so darn cruel, when the criminals kill them some people get upset but I don’t even budge because what goes around come around. What a beautiful country to live in with NO JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
r.i.p cuz we deff will miss you life so unfair …keep watching over the family and kids