He was assaulted and shot in the street in the broad daylight of a Saturday afternoon in the city and now police have charged a 21 year old for shooting Kareem Wright on February 18th of this year. Lionel Neal was taken to Magistrate's Court where he was charged with attempted murder, attempted robbery and dangerous harm. He was denied bail and remanded to custody until the 12th April.
The charges arose after Wright was shot three times to the lower back and once in his upper left arm while he was in a yard at the corner of Dean Street and Amara Avenue fixing a punctured tire on his bicycle. At the time a man walked up to him pointed a gun, and fearing for his life Wright took off running and the gunman followed behind firing a number of shots at him as he ran.
