Truck driver shot – listed stable in hospital

Essequibo : Osafo Roberts, 26, a truck driver of 61 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara is admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of the Suddie Public Hospital in a serious but stable condition, nursing a gunshot injury to his abdomen.
About 5 a.m. today, the victim was leaving the business premises of his employer at Jamakie, Buck Hall, Essequibo River, when he was confronted and shot by an identifiable male who was armed with a handgun.
The suspect who fled the scene is being sought.