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.