Tonight a police Corporal is in critical condition and on a respirator at the KHMH intensive Care Unit after he was shot last night.
Last night at around 10:00, Corporal Victor Lima was responding to a home invasion in Hattieville when he was shot twice in the chest with a nine millimeter pistol.
This morning, police press officer Fitzroy Yearwood briefed the media on this shooting of a lawman:
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood - Police Press Officer
"Hattieville Police responded to a home invasion, an aggravated burglary, and upon entering the house, Corporal Lima was along with other officers. As he opened the door at that scene, the gunman fired 2 shots. He has been identified as Delford Slusher. He has already been arrested and charged for attempted Murder. Corporal Lima is in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital."
Jules Vasquez
"Lima was shot twice in the chest. Will he make it?"
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood
"We are not sure. He is critical right now, and we just asking for your prayers and your support for him."
Jules Vasquez
"Does Mr. Slusher have a criminal background? Is he known in Hattieville as a trouble-maker?"
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood
"Well, he was positively identified in this incident, Jules, so I wouldn't want to judge his character like this. So, we'll just leave that up to the court for them to give him his fair due."
We did make attempts to speak to the females who were being held hostage by the home invader when police responded, but they declined the interview.
They are 29 year old Shakira Smith and a 17 year old girl.
They told police that the assailant, known to them as Peter held them up at gunpoint, and started searching the house. Peter was identified by three witnesses as 30 year-old Delford Slusher
Slusher was arraigned in Magistrate's Court today before Magistrate Hamilton.
He was charged with 1 count of keeping an unlicensed firearm for 2 rounds live rounds of 9 mm ammunition.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge, but due to the nature of the offence, Magistrate Hamilton couldn't grant him bail, and he was remanded to prison until August 28.
Half hour after his arraignment, he was escorted by CIB officers back into custody, where he remains at this hour. He was supposed to be brought back to be arraigned on attempted murder, but up until the closing of the Magistrate's Court, that had not happened.
Our records show that this not the first time he has been before the courts. He was charged for murder in 2004 but beat the rap in 2006.
And then last year he was charged for trafficking almost 20 pounds of marijuana...
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