GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):

Police here are hunting for a 17-year-old young man who shot a 14-year-old girl Friday after she spurned his advances.

Donnis King of East Bank Demerara was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital and admitted to the High Dependency Unit following emergency surgery, Stabroek News reported.

Reports are that the young man visited King at her home around 8:00 p.m. and got upset after she spurned his advances. He reacted by pulling a gun and threatened to use it.

King reportedly said she had nothing serious with the young man but he "had it bad for me". She added that the young man constantly visited even after she told him that she was no longer interested.

On the night she was shot, King said, she was sitting in front of her home when he turned up. She said they spoke briefly during which time she told him that there was no chance of anything happening.

"I ask he to leave 'cause we ain't got nothing going and he got another girl too, but he wasn't taking that. He held on to me and pull a gun and I didn't want to scream 'cause I ain't know if he would shoot any of my family who went inside," the teenager said.

King said she was waiting for an opportunity to make a dash for the door and was attempting to do so when she was shot in the abdomen. After shooting her, the assailant fled and has not been seen since. King's relatives have since reported the incident to the police and are awaiting word on an arrest.