A man was shot at the horse track in Burrell Boom on Saturday night with a nine millimeter pistol. At about 11:30, 28 year old Adrian Myvette was riding a bicycle when he was shot once to his chest and twice to his midsection by a man on a motorbike. The gunman sped past him, and left Myvette for dead at the entrance to the racetrack. Fortunately, are residents heard the gunfire and called police, who rushed Myvette to the KHMH.
Now, it's the kind of thing that happens all too often in the city, but very rarely in small rural villages such as Burrell Boom. Today the officer commanding for those rural areas told us two persons are detained:..
Supt. Chris Noble, O/C Ladyville
"That incident we do have very minimal information on. We know that somebody is at the Karl Heusner Hospital, the hospital authorities there are doing their best to deal with him. We have 2 persons in custody, we are continuing our investigation and what we have so far is that we are following up on a shooting incident in Burrell Boom."
Jules Vasquez
"Is this something that concerns you? Is there some rivalry brewing or was this person an outsider?"
Supt Chris Noble, O/C Ladyville
"What we are looking at is the incident on a whole and looking at what may have caused it. That information is still what we are delving into and it may as well being from the outside or be something that is within the village. Whether it is rivalry or not, I cannot readily say but we will look into it and if it is we will work it out."
"The disturbance of this nature concerns us. We will be looking at whatever it takes. We have started programs in there to address up and coming youths, but to address the older heads, we don't have any and possibility of us looking into it is there now."
Myvette is in a stable condition and police expect to bring charges against one of the persons detained - a person who is familiar to Myvette.
We note that this is not the first time Myvette has been shot. Our records show that one year ago in January of 2013, police shot him after they claim he tried to wrest away an arresting officer's gun. At the time he was being arrested for drug trafficking. A further check of our records shows that in 2010, he was charged for drug possession, but escaped from the police cell.
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