– succumbed 20 hours later

By: Kristen Macklingam

A phone card vendor was shot five times as he was closing his stall at the Vendors’ Arcade, Georgetown, on Saturday evening.
Teron Hubbard, 29, succumbed to his injuries less than 24 hours after being admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

The now dead man spent just over 20 hours battling for his life at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but lost the fight around 16:30h on Sunday.
When Guyana Times visited the ICU, Hubbard’s father and aunt were trying to console each other.

Reports are that sometime around 20:00h on Boxing Night the young man was closing his stall when he was shot.

He was rushed to the GPH after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds and was in the ICU until his death.

His father Kenneth, told this newspaper that upon arrival at the GPH his son’s body had rejected blood transfusion so it was evident he was losing the fight for his life.

According to the distraught father, both of the young man’s kidneys had been badly damaged, a bullet had been lodged in his spine, he was shot to his throat, and also under one of his arms. He had also been shot to his buttocks.

As a result of all these, Hubbard’s respiratory system had been badly damaged and his organs began to fail.

“All the blood drained out of his body because his wounds were very serious. His body was rejecting blood; he just now died as you (reporter) came in. He was in a lot of pain. This is a great, great loss to me and my family,” Kenneth mournfully noted.

The father explained that even if his son were to have lived he would have been paralyzed from the waist down and he knows that his son would have ended up grieving to death since he was the type of man who was “always on the go”.

According to Kenneth, he is unaware if police are still investigating the matter since he has had no feedback from them, but to his knowledge the perpetrator is yet to be captured.

He described his deceased son as a hardworking individual who was family oriented, dedicated and full of life.

“Teron told me that I’m working hard, that I should stop working and he will work and take care of me. But I can’t stop working, I have to work now. He was always on the go, an agent for GTT and Digicel, in fact he got two awards from Digicel for best salesman of the year,” Kenneth told this newspaper.

According to the older Hubbard, he lives on the upper flat of his East La Penitence, Georgetown, house and Teron lived in the downstairs apartment with his family.

He leaves to mourn his father, relatives, four children with the youngest being a five-month-old baby. (kristenm@guyanatimesgy.com)