Philipsburg:--- The young man that police shot in Dutch Quarter on Friday morning as they tried to arrest escape prisoner Chucky Nelson is trying to find out how the Police Department intends to compensate him for the injuries he sustained.The young man was seen on Tuesday morning at the Philipsburg Police Station on two crutches while his right leg was in a cast looking for his Blackberry phone that was confiscated by police when the incident occurred.
The victim who identified himself as "Ricardo" was conversing with some officers who apparently shot in him in mistaken identity on Friday and he claims the officers told him that whenever they see the escape prisoner Chucky Nelson they will shoot him to death. Ricardo said he was on a motorcycle entering Dutch Quarter with another person whom he said jumped off of the scooter and escaped. The police, he said fired two shots at him, without firing any warning shots. "They shot me in the leg and one hit my tire". The young man said the article reported in one of the Daily Newspapers was false and that police tried to cover up what they did to him. The young man said the newspaper did not contact him to get their facts straight. "I was going by one of my friends to get a helmet with I noticed a set of police officers in the area, when they saw me they just began to shoot because they took me for Chucky."