Woman deaf in right ear after being shot

Lucas is a bartender. The bullet penetrated her left cheek and remains lodged behind her right ear. she also suffered extensive damage to her jaw. According to reports, on August 8, a gunman calmly walked to the bar counter at Tropical Bar, southern Main Road, St Margaret’s and, without saying a word, shot Lucas in the face before grabbing just over $1,000 cash she was counting at the time. He also made off with her cell phone.

He was arrested several days later and appeared in court. Lucas spent several weeks at the San Fernando General Hospital. She is now at home recuperating and told Newsday yesterday her pain is unbearable. “I can’t even hear in my right ear. It is real pain I experiencing now and when rain falls it only gets worse,” she said. “More than that, I am traumatised, I cannot work and my bills are mounting. I’m in a ‘sou sou’ and can’t even pay it.”

Her common-law husband Jason Andall said Lucas contributed to the support of the home. “Right now I am not working and we are beginning to feel it,” he said. “My wife was working honestly when she was shot. who will pay for her injuries now?” On August 21, two other women Jenelle Bernard, 27 and Nisha Danraj, 21, of Quarry Road, Morne Diablo were also shot and wounded while liming at a bar in their village. They are also at home recuperating.