A land dispute has been blamed for a shooting incident in Plum Mitan, east of Sangre Grande, on Sunday, which left an 11- year old boy nursing gunshot injuries after he was shot while asleep.
Brydn Jury was shot three times in the abdomen and foot when attackers came with guns blazing.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday Sitram Jury, 67, the boy’s grandfather, whose home was also shot at during the incident, said: “God saved that little boy you know. The bullets went straight through. He in Mt Hope now.”
Jury admitted that he had been questioned for a murder in the district and released but said if anyone had anything against him they should have sought him.
“If I do somebody something come and lick me up, leave my son and my grandson,” he said. Jury said his home was attacked twice last month by an arsonist. On one occasion his curtain caught afire and on another date a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his home but failed to explode.
As a result of these attacks, Jury had installed security cameras outside his wooden home. He said he was sleeping when gunmen opened fire on his home on Sunday, shattering the louvre panes.
The bullets tore through the mosquito net above his bed before exiting through another bedroom. He said while bullets flew over his head he was on his phone contacting the Biche Police Station.
The maternal grandfather of the child, Permanand Hanooman, said he has been living in Settlement Trace, Plum Mitan, all his life and will not be moved by the attack.
Hanooman, 69, said the incident was a sad one, as since the shooting the entire family has been shaken up.
“I born and grow here. My navel string bury here where I will go?" he questioned.
Jury, like Hanooman, said he would not be chased from his home having lived there since August 15, 1974.