By Anastasha Elliott
Last Week Superintendent Joseph Liburd of the Charlestown Police Station while speaking to The Observer said that two men were in custody assisting police in their investigation into the shooting of Deon Warner on April 8 at Brown Hill.
On Wednesday Liburd informed the paper that no one was in custody for the incident.
The two men had been arrested and charged in an unrelated incident.
Clive ‘Unclash’ Walters of Stoney Grove and Travis ‘Frisco’ Byron of Jessups were arrested and charged with threatening to shoot and assault.
They are accused of threatening to shoot and assaulting Renrick Jeffers of Gingerland.
Police are continuing investigations into the incident. Warner was shot following the official launch of the Brown Hill Basketball League.
The 25-year-old was paralyzed from the neck down, according to doctors.
Reports indicated that up to Saturday Warner was doing well.
Wednesday further reports suggested that he had taken a turn for the worst.
Warner, a native of Anguilla, who resides in Nevis, was shot in the mouth as he and a group of friends were leaving the official opening of a basketball league at Brownhill.
According to reliable sources, Warner and his friends were about to get into their vehicle —which was parked in a dark alley — when a shot was heard.
As people ran from the area three other shots rang out.
Warner’s friends returned to the vehicle and found him on the ground. They immediately took him to the Alexandra hospital.
According to Police Warner was shot in the side of his face in what appears to be a retaliation attack.
In another shooting incident, which occurred just days after the shooting of Warner, Brian Mills was hospitalized after being shot in the upper left thigh.
Superintendent Liburd said that two persons were arrested in that case.
Two masked men shot Mills of Chapel Street, Charlestown, at the hot water springs in Bath Village.
Mills was shot in the upper left thigh and was in stable condition at the Alexandra Hospital.
Moments before the shooting, Mills said he was enjoying a soothing soak in the hot water springs.
Mills went to the hot bath around 12:15 a.m.
While he soaked in the springs two masked gun men came down into the area he was in.
“I figured they were looking for somebody and since it wasn’t me I wasn’t really too threatened by them,” Mills said. “They circled where I was and then went up to the upper bath and told me to come out of the bath. I asked them what did they want. They didn’t answer. They just told me to come out of the bath. So I did and they told me to lay down and I said ‘excuse me what?’ and they said lie down.”
At that point, Mills figured the two men were a threat to his life. Mills said if was to lie down, he would go down fighting.
“So I grabbed the guy closest to me and wrestled with him and pulled the gun away from him. In doing so, I also pulled off his mask. I guess when he realized he had neither the gun nor his mask he ran,” Mills said.
However, the second masked man also had a gun, and Mills said the gun had been pointed right at him.
Mills said he ran “in the opposite direction towards the back of the bath and up the stones trying to get away.”
“It was then I heard the gun discharge and felt the pain in my leg,” Mills said. “I ran towards the power gas station area with them in pursuit. By the time I got to the road I noticed they were about 50 meters behind me and they were getting closer.
“I headed in the direction of Reliable Motors. My father-in-law lived close by, so I ran into his yard and called out for help. He came out and I asked him to drop me to the hospital, which he did and I received medical attention.”
“The bullet passed right through my thigh and missed the bone and any major vessels. I still have full sensation in my leg,” Mills said.
Mills, a Corporate Manager at Guardian Trust, said at first it did not make sense for him to run.
