A run to get ham for a friend almost cost one Marabella man his life on Boxing night.
Dixon Richards, 22, was liming at a neighbour’s home on Bay Road Marabella around 8 pm on Boxing night when he left to go to his house a short distance away to get ham for one of his friends.
On his way back, Richards was hit by a stray bullet when two men who were arguing with each other, began shooting at each other.
Richards, a father of one, was shot in the stomach.
He was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. He is now warded in stable condition.
His mother, Helen King, told the T&T Guardian yesterday that she now feels her son, who is a twin, should move out of the area.
“I just feel that he shouldn’t live here again, the way I feeling right now, like he should pack and leave here,” she said. “The bullet pierced his stomach and exited from the front too, the doctors said he was very lucky that it didn’t damage any of his organs.”
She said her son is gainfully employed as a security officer and is very hardworking.
“He does not be in anything with anyone, he was just passing by and get shoot. He works with a security company and he is a very hardworking person.”
King said another man was also shot during the incident but she did not know his identity.
Police were not able to identify the second injured man either.