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Friday, July 18, 2025

Five in hospital after downtown shooting

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Five men re­main ward­ed at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter they were shot on Thurs­day night while stand­ing on low­er George Street, in East Port-of-Spain.The men, who are from Port-of-Spain, Laven­tille and Mor­vant are: Evans Fri­day, 62; Lin­don Samuel, 55; Ger­ard Man­swell, 41; Lennox Lu­cas, 59, and Car­los Thomp­son, 58.

Three men ap­proached them and be­gan shoot­ing, po­lice re­ports stat­ed. The shoot­ing took place around 10 pm. Thomp­son was shot twice in the back as he tried to es­cape while the oth­ers were hit in their legs and feet.Af­ter the shoot­ing, the gun­men ran to In­de­pen­dence Square, where they robbed 60-year-old Vir­ginia Bruce of her AD Wag­on.As Bruce was about to get in­to her car, which was parked near Back To Ba­sics Gro­cery, the three men ac­cost­ed her and sped off in her car.


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