Residents in Gall Hill are tired living in the “wild, wild west” and want the Royal Barbados Police Force to do something about it.
It was on Christmas Eve that a drive-by shooting in the area left three nursing gunshot wounds to various parts of their body.38-year-old Brian Lashley, 31 year-old Stephen Millar and 29 year-old Sherma George were injured in the incident which also left a few houses with bullet holes in their walls and one even in a resident’s front door.
One outspoken resident, Cathy Brathwaite, said she was tired of the situation and was asking the Royal Barbados Police Force to send patrols in the area to help control the situation.Brathwaite already knows the pain of losing a loved one, since she lost her son by way of a shot to the back of his head in Kendall Hill back in August.
As she displayed a framed collage of photos of her son, the hurt mother said she was yet to come to grips with what had happened and didn’t want her daughter to suffer the same fate.“I want the police to do something about this area. The residents out here may be afraid to talk, but I have to speak out because there is too much shooting in this area. I have a young daughter here and I can’t afford to have her suffer the same fate as her brother,” she vented.
Brathwaite said the shooting on Christmas Eve night was the second within six months, but the third in the last year and a half.
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