Yesterday’s shooting in a densely populated St Michael district was four times for the year too many. And residents want an end to it.
What started out as a birthday celebration with on-the-spot roasted fish as the main treat, ended with people scampering for their lives when two gunmen opened fire outside of a house at 6th Avenue, The Ivy, St Michael, in the wee hours of the morning. The incident left a 51-year-old man from the nearby Howell’s Cross Road nursing a gunshot wound to the upper arm. He had to seek treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
“Two fellas come and send about seven shots at we and everybody run and come inside my grandmother house . . . . When we come back out we run them cross the pasture but we couldn’t do anything because they had guns and ting,” an eyewitness said.
Ercilla Grazette and her family have been the targets of the attack on each occasion, and she is now at her wits’ end over the situation. One of the bullets was lodged in the side of her house and was removed by police yesterday.
Grazette and the others were particularly concerned about the safety of the children who were sleeping in the house at the time of the attack.
