WHILE standing at the side of the road in the city’s capital, waiting for a traffic light to change colour on Monday, 45-year-old Lander Rodney of Maraval was shot in his left forearm.

At the time, Rodney was holding his five-year-old daughter’s hand with his right hand. The shooting occurred around 3.15 p.m.

Fifteen minutes earlier, Rodney had picked up his daughter, Ronella, from school. Ronella is a First Year pupil of the St Catherine’s Girls’ School, on Duke Street in Port of Spain. It was at the corner of Edward and Duke Streets, the shooting occurred. Rodney was at the time heading back to work at Colfire’s office at Duke and Abercromby Streets, where he is a courier.

’We were standing at the corner waiting for the light to turn green, when I heard a loud explosion,’ Rodney said.

’Ronella let go my hand, then I felt a burning in my left arm, and also smelt something burning,’ Rodney recalled.

Rodney was shot in his left arm and a fragment from the bullet also struck his left thigh.

A concerned citizen who saw the commotion stopped to assist Rodney, and called an ambulance. When Rodney reached the Port of Spain General Hospital, the bullet was retrieved from inside his work shirt. Rodney gave the bullet to investigating officers.