Sascha Wil­son | Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A week af­ter she was shot in the head dur­ing a dead­ly home in­va­sion, a 12-year-old girl has re­gained con­scious­ness and is re­cu­per­at­ing. She re­mains ward­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal as the bul­let is still in her head but is no longer in the In­ten­sive Care Unit, a rel­a­tive said.

“That’s why they still have her there, to mon­i­tor her but she talk­ing and walk­ing. I video call her yes­ter­day and talk to her,” the rel­a­tive told Guardian Me­dia.

He said when they broke the news to the girl ear­li­er this week that her moth­er, Asha George, did not sur­vive the at­tack, she told them she knew her moth­er got shot but was un­aware that she had died.

The girl, who has 24-hour po­lice pro­tec­tion, has asked to at­tend her moth­er’s fu­ner­al to­day in Clax­ton Bay. How­ev­er, the rel­a­tive does not know if the doc­tors and the po­lice will al­low her to at­tend. He al­so did not know when the fu­ner­al of George’s boyfriend, De­von Dray­ton, would take place.

George, 30, and Dray­ton, 33, were shot dead at George’s Hill Top Dri­ve, Spring­vale, home on May 11. Gun­men en­tered the house while the cou­ple and George’s two daugh­ters were ly­ing on a mat­tress on the ground in a room. The old­er daugh­ter, 14, es­caped and ran to a neigh­bour’s home for help.

The cou­ple was shot mul­ti­ple times and the 12-year-old al­so suf­fered a wound to her foot. Po­lice sus­pect the shoot­ing was drug-re­lat­ed but in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing. No ar­rests had been made up to yes­ter­day.

George was the daugh­ter of SRP Er­ic George, who shot his wife to death and then killed him­self near their Clax­ton Bay home more than two decades ago. In 2018, George’s for­mer boyfriend Je­re­mi­ah Stephen was shot dead in that house and two days lat­er the house was de­stroyed in an ar­son at­tack.

Of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.