Two peo­ple nar­row­ly es­caped be­ing shot on Thurs­day night, while a third was shot in the left shoul­der hours af­ter be­ing robbed by five men.Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Vin­cent Rivers, 46, was dri­ving his car along Co­corite Ter­race, Diego Mar­tin, with Di­anne St Hillaire, 22, a fire of­fi­cer, in the front pas­sen­ger seat when four men opened fire on the car.The car crashed but both oc­cu­pants were un­harmed. The gun­men es­caped. The shoot­ing took place just af­ter 11 pm, on Thurs­day, po­lice said.

In an un­re­lat­ed shoot­ing in the same area, five men, dressed in cam­ou­flage uni­forms and ski masks, shot 26-year-old Kurt Pope and an­oth­er man who were stand­ing on the road in Co­corite.Po­lice said Pope was shot in the left shoul­der while the oth­er man was not in­jured. Po­lice said the five had ear­li­er robbed Pope of $10,000 worth of jew­el­ry, $40 in cash and a cell phone.Cpl Nicome of the West­ern Di­vi­sion is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to both shoot­ing in­ci­dents.

In sep­a­rate po­lice op­er­a­tions which be­gan on Thurs­day night and end­ed ear­ly yes­ter­day, sev­er­al peo­ple were ar­rest­ed while dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol and 120 mo­torists were charged for oth­er traf­fic of­fences in the North­ern Di­vi­sion.Dur­ing the an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, 25 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences in­clud­ing fail­ing the breathal­yser test.An­oth­er 15 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion. Some 60 tick­ets were is­sued to mo­torists in that op­er­a­tion.