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27 Year Old On Life Support
posted (January 26, 2015)
Tonight a 27 year old UB student is on life support at the KHMH after he was shot in his back on Saturday night. The shooting happened in Hattieville at a Birthday Party on Camal Street. 27 year old Eugene Pitts was on the dancefloor when the crowd of partygoers heard a loud bang coming from some bushes behind the yard. The young man's midsection was riddled with shotgun pellets. An eyewitness who asked to appear off camera told us what he saw:

Voice of Friend of Eugene Pitts
"My sister had a little birthday party and she invited a lot of friends and she told me to invite some of my friends and so I did, because we all are DJs. Everything was going nice, no one expect the worse to happen, so it was a night to free up. Lots of kids and women and fathers and all kinds of people were around - it was family event. After a little after the birthday song for my sister and cut the cake, everyone began to party and moved under the tent. About 5-10 minutes after we heard a bang. People said that the speaker exploded."

Monica Bodden
"Was it one gunshot?"

Voice of Friend of Eugene Pitts
"Yes, it was one gunshot we heard and one person laid on the ground. When I went to see him, I ask what happened and he said that he got shot. I was like "shot" and he said yes, I got shot and then I ask him to show me. I ask him how did he got shot, because knowing us, we don't mess with anybody and we are not in any gang, we are just into music and love and everybody knows us as that in the village. So, for something to happen like that, it's very strange around here."

Monica Bodden
"When you asked him who would do something like that to him, did he reply?"

Voice of Friend of Eugene Pitts
"He never replied, because he was in lots of pain."

Monica Bodden
"To what part of his body did you notice the gunshot wound?"

Voice of Friend of Eugene Pitts
"Lower right back."

Monica Bodden
"He was saying that he couldn't move his legs?"

Voice of Friend of Eugene Pitts
"He said that he could not feel his leg, my leg was weak. He ask for his phone so that he could call his mother and then one of my friends gave him his phone and he call his mother and she reached and they went."

So far police have no suspect for this latest shooting. One man was detained by police over the weekend but was released today.

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