Derek Achong

A 47-year-old Ari­ma man is fight­ing for his life af­ter be­ing shot near his home yes­ter­day. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 9.45 am, Shel­don Isaac, of Sa­van­nah Road, Pey­tonville, Ari­ma, went to pur­chase dou­bles from a group of ven­dors at the cor­ner of Span­crete Boule­vard and O'Meara Road, Ari­ma.Eye­wit­ness­es told po­lice when Is­sac was re­turn­ing to his green Toy­ota Corol­la, which was parked near­by, he was con­front­ed by a gun­man.

The gun­man drew a gun and shot Isaac sev­er­al times in his chest, head and right arm. As Isaac col­lapsed next to his car, the gun­man ran away.North­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice led by Sgts Toorie and Kat­wa­roo ar­rived on the scene with­in min­utes and took Isaac to the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty. Isaac was then trans­fered to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope, where he re­mained ward­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion, up to late yes­ter­day. Po­lice ar­rest­ed a man fit­ting the de­scrip­tion of the sus­pect near the scene.