By Jacqueline L. Dennis

IPNEWS: The Liberia National Police on Monday, October 24, 2022, forwarded to court the son of a businessman, Attorney-at-law George B. Kailondo, George Kailondo Junior, on allegations of illegal possession of a firearm.
Police arrested him recently after he allegedly discharged the firearm, a pistol, and wounded a man identified as Mohammed Kamara, who, according to reports is in critical condition at the JFK Memorial Hospital in Sinkor.

Defendant Kailondo was charged with Aggravated Assault and Recklessly Endangering another person.

According to the Police charge sheet, the act committed by the defendant is in violation of chapter 17.11, chapter 14, sections 14.20 and section 14.23 of the revised penal code of the Republic of Liberia.

Court records say the defendant knowingly and recklessly took a pistol from victim Mohammed Kamara and while playing with the weapon discharged it, wounding victim Kamara in the abdomen.

During the Police investigation, according to court records, it was established that on October 7, 2022, victim Mohammed Kamara visited the (B&J) Luxury Limited armed with a pistol he said was owned by a man identified as Khalil Bongary, who he said had sent him for the weapon.
According to the court document while trying to adjust the gun that was slipping down from his trousers, another man identified as Mitchell, an employee of the B&J Limited, spotted the gun and remarked to the victim, Mohammed, “You and all carrying fake gun around here.”
The document further in response to Mitchell’s inquiry, the gun victim said the gun wasn’t fake and within that time defendant Kailondo Junior, had gone to purchase a phone from B&J Business.
It was also revealed that immediately victim Kamara handed the gun over to Kailondo as he had requested, the defendant advanced the gun at which time one of the bullets drop and while reloading the bullet, the gun discharged and the bullet hit Mohammed who was in the right of way.
Before the gun fired, according to the court document, the owner of the business center warned Defendant Kailondo against reloading the fallen bullet.
It was further established that as soon the gun fired, everyone in the store fled the scene in different directions as the victim fell to the ground and had to be rushed to the Mawah Clinic in Vai Town on Bushrod Island from where he was transferred to the JFK Hospital for in Sinkor.