A 25-year-old taxi driver is thankful to be alive after carjackers shot him on Sunday night in Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.

According to reports, Andy Gobin, an employee of Diamond Cabs Taxi Service, was attacked by two passengers whom he had picked up at around 22:15 hours on Sunday.

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Gobin, of Brickery, East Bank Demerara, sustained gunshot wounds to his chest and both upper arms.
He was treated at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, before being admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Speaking to this newspaper from his hospital bed, Gobin said he saw the two men at the head of Diamond Housing Scheme.
Gobin said the men entered his vehicle after requesting to be taken to ‘Second Bridge’, in Diamond Housing Scheme.
“When we reach at Second Bridge one ah dem tell me stop de car, and when I stop he come out the car and started walking away, but he look li’l suspicious and then he turn back to the car and pull out a gun. The same time the other man open the door and did coming around to the driver side, and right away I know something wrong,” Gobin recalled.
Gobin immediately started to reverse the car in a bid to escape from his attackers.
“One ah dem hold onto de car door but I just drive away, then dem start shooting at me,” Gobin said. According to the injured man, after the gunshots rang out he felt numbness under his right arm initially, then in both of his arms.
Despite being shot, Gobin said, he never stopped driving until he reached to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
“I just keep driving all de time and I drive straight to the hospital,” Gobin recalled.
An employee from Diamond Cabs Taxi Service revealed that the wounded driver managed to contact them on his transmitting set and inform them of the attack.
According to Gobin, neither of the men wore masks.
No one has been arrested, but Police have recovered a warhead from the victim’s car.