Kevon Felmine

A 25-year-old San Fer­nan­do labour­er was left bat­tling for his life af­ter he was shot in the neck while gam­bling with friends on Fri­day night. Charles Lewis of Eliz­a­beth Street, Co­coyea, re­mained ward­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day, where doc­tors had to per­form emer­gency surgery to re­move a bul­let which was lodged near his throat.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Lewis and a group of men were play­ing a game of wap­pie in the front yard of a friend's home at Best Street, Co­coyea, when around 11:30 pm, a man known to Lewis en­tered the yard and point­ed a gun to his head. Eye­wit­ness­es told po­lice that the gun­man told Lewis, "Big man, pass what you have there." Lewis re­port­ed­ly hand­ed over $100. But in­stead of leav­ing, the gun­man shot him in the neck and ran in­to a wait­ing car.

Po­lice said they were con­fi­dent of an ar­rest as the sus­pect is known to them. Ear­li­er on, around 9.30 pm, sales­man Vic­tor Sox was on his way home when he was ab­duct­ed and robbed by two men. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Sox, of Mon De­sir Road, Dow Vil­lage, South Oropouche, was dri­ving along the South Trunk Road, La Ro­main, in his Nis­san pan­el van.

Sox told po­lice that he had stopped near Dansteel Hard­ware to uri­nate when two men, armed with guns, pulled up in a sil­ver Nis­san Sun­ny B15. He said the men or­dered him in­to the back of his van and tied his hands and feet to­geth­er. He was tak­en to Clax­ton Bay near Re­flec­tions Guest House where he was robbed of $3,000 and a mo­bile phone val­ued at $400. The men then es­caped in their car.