CASAN­DRA THOMP­SON�FORBES

Two men from Ply­mouth, To­ba­go, are nurs­ing gun­shot wounds fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in their area on Wednes­day night. The wound­ed were iden­ti­fied as Keon Gar­diner, 29, and Hol­lis Pan­tin, 30. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports the in­ci­dent oc­curred at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6 pm on Wednes­day while the duo walked close to their home. The men told po­lice that a man known to them ap­proached them and opened fire. Gar­diner suf­fered shots to the chest, right arm and left leg, while Pan­tin was shot in the right arm.

Both Pan­tin and Gar­diner were treat­ed at hos­pi­tal and dis­charged on Wednes­day night. The T&T Guardian was told the shoot­ing is gang-re­lat­ed and stemmed from a gam­bling in­ci­dent over the week­end and an on-go­ing turf war in the area. A man in his 20s from Ply­mouth was seen flee­ing the scene af­ter the shoot­ing and is cur­rent­ly be­ing sought by po­lice. He was last seen wear­ing a white meri­no and a pair of blue three–quar­ter jeans.

The Scar­bor­ough CID is spear­head­ing in­quiries. Cyn­thia Gar­diner, moth­er of Keon said her fam­i­ly fear for their lives since the al­leged shoot­er re­mains on the run. "I was told that the man was seen in the area and is plan­ning to get to Trinidad by pirogue. "We told the po­lice but we are still fear­ful be­cause he could come back at any time, but we need jus­tice," she said

Cyn­thia, who is an em­ploy­ee with Cepep To­ba­go, said she was not sat­is­fied with the med­ical at­ten­tion giv­en to her son. "The doc­tors sent home my son the same night he was shot, with just an­tibi­otics and painkillers. My child is in a lot of pain and he still has bul­lets in his body, but the doc­tors say­ing he would be al­right.

"I know when peo­ple get shoot they keep them for at least 24 hours for ob­ser­va­tion but they did not do that and now I have to take my child to a pri­vate doc­tor to see what could be done. I am afraid that the bul­lets will slow poi­son him," she said. She is there­fore call­ing for a speedy res­o­lu­tion to the mat­ter.

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Po­lice are al­so ask­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion to come for­ward or con­tact Crime Stop­pers at 800- TIPS, 555, the Scar­bor­ough CID at 639–2515 or the near­est po­lice sta­tion.