About 8 am and all was quiet. Angeles was in the small chapel at the front of the house, praying; the others were doing household chores. Isabel saw a youth with a pistol on the path in front of the house (the house is raised above the level of the path) and then several shots were fired by the front door of “our house”. The son of the next door neighbour, who was visiting his family and hoping to get some nappies for his baby, was shot 3 times. He survived but was hit in the leg and twice in the torso. He is in his mid-twenties. It has since transpired that he has lost a kidney and has a punctured lung and perforated colon. People saw 2 youths with pistols.
The commentary is that nobody really knows why this shooting happened now. The young man that was shot was known to take drugs before but, after a couple of attempts to stop taking drugs and with the support of his family, he went to a rehab centre in Barquisimeto. People are speculating that it was from an old grudge of some sort or that he is possibly taking drugs again. People say that it was the gang in this area of the barrio that sent two youths, not from this sector, to attack him. The nuns did not recognise the assailants.
So much excitement… Take care. You are in our thoughts and prayers.