Garth Henriques, father of dancehall deejay Sean Paul survived an attack at gunpoint on Sunday morning, during which a friend and business partner, John Pops Dowling was shot and injured.

Both Dowling and Henriques are directors of Reggae Inc. Dowling is now convalescing at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).

He is recovering but he still needs to do another operation. The bullet shattered the bone in his arm and his nerves are damaged, so he needs to do an operation to correct the damage to his nerves. He needs *lo**, his lungs are still bleeding, and he needs to replace that *lo**, Mr. Henriques said.

Jamaica, especially areas of its capital Kingston, has become a dangerous place where the populace has grown increasingly predatory, and the signs are troubling as the economy continues to flatline even while food and prices skyrocket. Last year,

The two men were at a house in Cassia Park, St. Andrew at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 13 when they were held at gunpoint by two men.

They never took anything from us, but they went into the girls room and got 3,000, I dont know what kind of valuables they had in the room. They put us both on the ground, but Pops got up and ran and they shot him at close range, the bullet shattered his arm went through his lungs and went straight into the other arm, he explained.

Dowling used to be an engineer and a producer for UB40.

When I spoke to Pops, he said he looked into the guys eyes and thought that he was going to kill him so he ran. After the guy shot him, they ran off, Mr. Henriques added.

Mr. Henriques, who operates a spring water business in addition to his role as a director in Reggae Inc., appeared to be in good spirits following his harrowing ordeal. Asked if he had been robbed before, he said:

I have had plenty of other jerk ups and scrapes before, but I guess, I never had Sean Paul as a son at the time, he said, laughing