Rhon­dor Dowlat

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

Venezue­lan tod­dler Josè Nunez who was shot on Mon­day night by stray bul­lets has been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal and is now home with his par­ents and fam­i­ly.

Par­ents Luis En­rique Her­nan­dez and Enyer­bis Nuñez are hap­py to have their son back home with them.

He was struck by two stray bul­lets while play­ing in the yard out­side an apart­ment build­ing in which his par­ents live at Lootoo Street, El So­cor­ro.

Lit­tle Josè was dis­charged from the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex yes­ter­day morn­ing.

He sus­tained soft tis­sue dam­age to both his thighs and but­tocks, ac­cord­ing to the hos­pi­tal’s dis­charge doc­u­ment.

Asked if there was any up­date from the po­lice and if he is look­ing for jus­tice for the wound­ing of his son, Her­nan­dez said, “Noth­ing from the po­lice. They came one time af­ter and I nev­er see them again. But lis­ten, my son is back home and it was an ac­ci­dent, maybe it was not in­ten­tion­al. My son will get bet­ter.”

The fam­i­ly has re­it­er­at­ed calls for help to be re­lo­cat­ed to the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca where they be­lieve they will be safer and be able to get bet­ter work for more mon­ey, com­pared to T&T.

One fam­i­ly mem­ber said they fled Venezuela be­cause of the hard­ships there, “We left be­cause the sit­u­a­tion is ter­ri­ble. We came to T&T and it is sim­i­lar and now we just want to move on to bet­ter and be­lieve we will be bet­ter off in Amer­i­ca.”

A friend of the fam­i­ly said T&T was get­ting hard­er for them, “Jobs are hard­er now to find and the po­lice are on­ly look­ing for the Venezue­lans to send them back to Venezuela. Too much prob­lems here now, we are not safe, we do not feel safe here any­more.”

Mean­while, po­lice said they are pur­su­ing sev­er­al leads for the gun­man whose wild shoot­ing on Mon­day night in El So­cor­ro land­ed Josè in the hos­pi­tal.