38 year old Elsworth Augustine is a food vendor and an easy going guy
– not the kind of person who seems like a trouble-maker. But early this
morning someone tried to kill him. Augustine lives in the long barracks on Sarstoon
Street and he says that around 1 am he went to look for a cab to take his neighbour
to the hospital. The neighbour’s baby had a high fever and like a good
samaritan he left his home to help her out. He was shot while he was looking
for that taxi. Augustine says he was on Vernon Street riding home when a red
skinned man with a red hat began trailing him. He told us what happened next.
Elsworth Augustine, Shooting Victim
“He came with a vibe, like mek he get a weed. That time I was just
riding. I didn’t want to study him because me and he dah no one. I was
riding and riding trying to reach my destination because I already felt funny,
I don’t mingle with those people to that extent and I didn’t expect
that would ketch me same way but at that hour when he hauled up on me and me
and him no familiar, I mi done feel a kind of way.
I mi wah jump off my bike but I said I will just ride. All I heard was
pop and I feel something on me. I felt like a sensation like I got it and was
still pedalling my bike and pedalling and a little amount of blood just came
out of mouth and I said I got shot bad and I was riding trying to reach home.
Same way when I reached by long barracks I set down the bike and I ran to the
destination and I ran to gial and they asked me what gaan on and I told them
I got shot and I started to spit out blood.
I don’t trouble nobody. I don’t bother nobody and thing, I
try to help people and thing so I don’t understand this gang related with
me because I don’t keep myself in that kind of life. I am somebody who
tries to live positive because I see what those things could bring you down
and thing. So I try keep far out of it but according to how it situate and how
I am in this bed here, I was a victim of the situation.”
Elsworth Augustine has reason to feel lucky because even though he
was shot in the back, it didn’t damage his spinal cord or any major organ.
Police have made no arrests but say they are looking for a suspect who is known
to them.
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