Eight peo­ple, among them three women, were wound­ed when gun­men raid­ed a lime in Beetham Gar­dens on Thurs­day night. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 9 pm, a group of friends were play­ing cards and domi­noes at a house at 24th Street, Beetham Gar­dens, when they saw two strangers walk­ing to­wards them.

When they got clos­er, with­out warn­ing the two men drew guns and start­ed shoot­ing at the group. All eight limers were wound­ed as they tried to es­cape. Af­ter they at­tacked the group, the men ran to­wards the Beetham High­way, where po­lice be­lieve they es­caped in a wait­ing car.

Those in­jured were iden­ti­fied as: Ter­ry Ro­get, 40; Clint Clark, 38; Deb­bie Joseph, 34; Natasha Lara, 30; Sophia Bay­er 33; Ho­race Sylvester 62; Christo­pher Gabriel, 27, and Ker­win Reyes 26, all of 22nd and 24th Streets, Beetham Gar­dens. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said none of the vic­tims' wounds were deemed life-threat­en­ing, by doc­tors. The vic­tims re­mained ward­ed at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day.

Po­lice have not de­ter­mined a mo­tive for the shoot­ing. They said the vic­tims were not known to the po­lice and were not in­volved in gang-re­lat­ed or crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty in the com­mu­ni­ty. ASP Ajith Per­sad, In­sps Sa­hadeo Singh and Mervyn Ed­wards of the Port-of-Spain CID are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.