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Nov 30, 2014 News
A West Berbice man is now hospitalized in the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot in the face on Wednesday
evening, allegedly by an intruder.
According to reports, Lester Cummings, called ‘Como’, 46, of 55 Number 8 Village, West Coast Berbice, lives alone.
The man, a former businessman, has fallen on difficult times and has become an alcoholic.
The man told investigators that he had retired to bed around 23:00hrs. He said that soon after he was aroused by an intruder armed with a handgun in his room. The man shone a light in his face and told him to “give me the gold and money.”
He told the intruder that he that he doesn’t have any and the man shot him in the left side face before escaping.
After he was shot he made a number of telephone calls and a friend subsequently arrived and took him to the hospital.
Cummings was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital, before being taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital and subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital for emergency surgery to remove the bullet that was lodged there. He remains hospitalized.
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