A Berbice taxi driver is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital nursing a gunshot wound to the leg

Injured, Darshan Rampersaud

after he was attacked and shot by two armed men during a robbery at his Cumberland, East Canje, home on Friday last.
The injured man was identified as Darshan Rampersaud, 39, of Lot 125 Coburg Street, Canje, Berbice. According to reports, the taxi driver returned home at about 20:30h and took off his wristwatch and placed it on the steps along with the day’s earning.
He then went into the kitchen, got some food and went upstairs. While there the two men armed with a cutlass and a gun confronted and ordered him to remain silent.
They demanded he hand over money and valuables but when he resisted, they dealt him several blows to the head and body. During the beating, a bullet was accidently discharged which missed his head.
Reports are the two bandits panicked and started to order each other to kill the man but the neighbours had already heard the gunshot and raised an alarm thus causing the men to flee.
Marlyn Ramsammy, wife of the injured man told Guyana Times that her husband was home alone on the night of the robbery. “He was waiting for the computer to come on when he heard footsteps going up the step. He though that is we came home so he was coming to look and midway in the hall he see two fellows, one with a cutlass and one with a gun and they point the gun to him and tell him to be silent,” the wife related.
The two men, she explained began demanding valuables from Rampersaud while beating him with both the gun and cutlass.
“The one with the gun take the gun and lash he in he head and it went off. The one with the cutlass start telling the one with the gun to shoot he and the one with the gun telling the one with the cutlass no, you no chap he… then the one turn an shoot he on he foot.”
They escaped with the money placed on the stairway and rode off on two bicycles parked a stone’s throw away.
The police have launched an investigation.