Stoney Grove resident shot while driving
Victim says, “I believe they were trying to kill me!”

By Pauline Waruguru
Nevis Reporter-SKNVibes.com

Asim Parris at the Alexandra Hospital

Thirty-year-old Asim Parris of Stoney Grove, Nevis is a patient at the Alexandra Hospital after he was shot while driving past Low Street on Saturday morning shortly after midnight.

This is the second time his car has been targeted. Six weeks ago a passenger in his car was shot on Government Road, Nevis in the vicinity of the Jewish Cemetery. The passenger, Dion Walters of Stoney Grove, sustained gunshot injuries, was hospitalised at Alexandra Hospital and later discharged.

This time however, the shots were directed at Parris and one was lodged in his right shoulder. He was sitting on a chair outside the hospital’s ward conversing with friends on Saturday evening when SKNVibes interviewed him.

Parris was seemingly calm and occasionally managed a smile as he narrated his ordeal. He had spent Friday evening in New Castle and shortly after midnight began his drive back to Charlestown, but on approaching Low Street his car was shot at on both the front and rear windscreens. “I was driving very fast,” he recalled.

He recalls hearing four or five shots. “After the bullet hit me I did not panic. I kept on driving. I thought if I stop they will shoot and finish me. I don’t lime in Low Street these days and I was driving on the main street. I believe they were trying to kill me, but they did not get the whole of me,” Parris said.    ~~Adz:Right~~

Parris said he braved the injuries and drove himself to Alexandra Hospital where he was attended to by the doctor on duty. He said the doctor told him that he would remove the bullet from his body on Tuesday. 

“This is a stumbling block (referring to the shooting). I am changing my lifestyle; I do not want to go to prison again. I own a car which I also use as a taxi. I also work for a road construction company.  I do not want to go to prison I prefer to be dead than go to prison again. I do not want to sleep on concrete again. I am trying to cool and then I get this stumbling block…a lot of men are after me; they want me to stay in the slum but I want to build a house before I am 35.”