Ak­ile Si­mon

An 11-year-old boy of En­ter­prise Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, es­caped death af­ter he was shot in the stom­ach while re­turn­ing to his home around 10.30 am on Sun­day.

Zion Mur­ray, of Jack Ter­race, re­mained ward­ed in se­ri­ous but sta­ble con­di­tion at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC). He was shot in the stom­ach with the bul­let ex­it­ing his back. The boy is a stan­dard four pupil of the En­ter­prise Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School. How­ev­er, mys­tery sur­rounds the cir­cum­stances un­der which Mur­ray was wound­ed. In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day the vic­tim's grand­moth­er, Gle­ta Dou­glas, said a loud ex­plo­sion was heard and Mur­ray slumped to the ground. She said peo­ple in the area said they did not see any sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ties tak­ing place at the time of the shoot­ing. Ac­cord­ing to the woman, she sent Mur­ray to a near­by shop to buy bis­cuits and milk.

"Fif­teen min­utes lat­er, a neigh­bour came and say some­thing hap­pened to him (Mur­ray). By the time I got to the scene Sgt Ter­rance Williams, a neigh­bour, placed him in a car and took him to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty," she said. Dou­glas added: "Up to now, no­body ain't know how he got shot. Peo­ple who was in the area said they did not see any car or bi­cy­cle pass. They just heard a shot."

Ac­cord­ing to Dou­glas, at the EWM­SC, Mur­ray told her he was walk­ing back home and all he heard was "bow" be­fore he fell to the ground. She said doc­tors told her Mur­ray may have to un­der­go fur­ther surgery. "All I want is jus­tice in this mat­ter be­cause he did noth­ing to de­serve what hap­pened to him," Dou­glas said. Of­fi­cers of the Ch­agua­nas CID are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.