Longdon shocked by his friend’s death

The news that his longtime friend Esron ‘Ezzie’ Ells was dead came as a surprise to Fernando Longdon.

‘I thought was me alone that got shot, but when I see his brother bring him down and I find out he dead, I feel real bad.”((more))

Though he was at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the lower abdomen, 18-year-old Langdon could not help but feel for his friend who succumbed to a gunshot to the right cheek.

As he lay recuperating in the male surgical ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital under police guard, Langdon painfully recounted to SEARCHLIGHT the moments before his life almost ended on the evening of June 18.

“A good bit ah we was at Heritage Square and we decided to go to the car park,” he recalled.

“As we walking down just before we reach the post office, a guy from another group intentionally bump into ‘Youthie,’ then they start to argue and we see them turn around and everybody start to tussle.”

‘I didn’t see no gun. I just hear the shot and I get frighten and I bend down and then I run off.”

Langdon, also known as ‘Skirty’ to his relatives and friends said that he never realized that he was shot until it was brought to his attention by a minivan driver.

He said that the van driver brought him to the hospital where he received medical attention.

The 2009 graduate of the Dr. J P Eustace Secondary School expressed gratitude to God that he was still alive following the ordeal.

He disclosed that the bullet that entered his stomach destroyed his appendix, and that he was in a lot of pain.

The Rocks, Redemption Sharpes resident noted that he has all intention to continue his education, having applied

to the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Technical College. He is awaiting a response;

he wants to be a building

contractor.

Meanwhile, his boyhood friend Ells is scheduled to be laid to rest on Sunday.

The postmortem on the 22-year-old revealed that the bullet that entered his cheek exited through the back of his neck after rupturing his spinal cord.

The internal bleeding caused his lungs to fill with blood.

Longdon, reminiscing on the evening said that never did he expect the night to end the way it did.

“Everybody rear up together and we just went out to have some fun,” he said.