A gunman opened fire on patients at the Public Hospitals Authority's Community Counseling and Assessment Centre on Market Street yesterday morning wounding one man, police said.
Police said the man was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Witnesses claimed that a second man was shot during the incident and ran away from the scene, but police could not confirm this.
Superintendent Leamond Deleveaux, officer-in-charge of the Central Division, said police were called around 11:15 a.m. about a shooting.
Deleveaux said police were told that four young men approached the counseling center, one armed with a shotgun, and spoke to a man inside.
Shots were soon fired, police said.
Deleveaux said it was too early in the investigation to say if the gunman was a patient of the center and specifically targeted those inside.
A patient who identified himself only as Travis told The Nassau Guardian he witnessed the shooting. He said patients became alarmed after they saw a man outside with a shotgun.
He said they exited the building through a side door to avoid being seen.
"I was attending counseling," he said. "One of the [men] ran in saying, 'gun, gun, gun,'...When we peeked outside [we saw a man] walking up and down the sidewalk with a gun in his hand.
"We have another door. One or two people started slipping out that door so I slipped out too. And when he saw us come out the side door, he came down the sidewalk and one or two [men] told him to [leave]. So he said, 'What, what?' and he just started shooting."
The witness said he was unharmed but he said his neighbor was shot to the face.
He said he and his neighbor ran out of the line of fire and headed toward the nearby Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) for help, attempting to flag down police officers.
The witness said he returned to the scene with his neighbor's bloody shirt in hand to retrieve the shoes he left behind when he ran from the gunman.
Another patient, who also did not want to be identified, said he saw the gunman flee the scene on foot.
"I was on my way to counseling," he said. "By the time as I reached halfway to the middle of the corner I heard some shots and when I looked I [saw] the young man running back, straight out to Baillou Hill Road with the gun in [his] hand.
"It's sad; it's [not] safe. The police got to do something."
Deleveaux said police did not have a description of the gunman.
The shooting came hours after the country's third murder of the year was recorded.
Around 8 p.m. on Thursday, a man was shot and killed on Taylor Street.
Police said last night they did not know the condition of the man they confirmed was shot.

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