Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an armed rob­bery at a fast food out­let in Freeport on Sat­ur­day night.

Re­ports stat­ed that around 11.15 pm on Fri­day, a 30-year-old cashier at KFC in St Mary’s Vil­lage was con­duct­ing sales. Three oth­er peo­ple, a 33-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer, a 34-year-old welder and a 44-year-old en­gi­neer, were in the restau­rant when two men armed with firearms stormed in­to the busi­ness and an­nounced a hold-up.

The sus­pects robbed the vic­tims of their phones and al­most $2,000 in cash and al­so grabbed $327 from the cash reg­is­ter.

They es­caped in a white Nis­san AD wag­on.

Man shot in Cou­va

A 19-year-old man was wound­ed in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in his neigh­bour­hood in Cou­va yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said around 12.30 am, he was stand­ing in front a par­lour in Per­se­ver­ance Vil­lage when a white Nis­san AD Wag­on with four men pulled up along­side him.

One of the men who was seat­ed in back, right side of the ve­hi­cle point­ed a gun at him and fired, hit­ting him on his right hand.

The vic­tim ran and sought as­sis­tance from a passer­by, who took him to the Cou­va Health Fa­cil­i­ty. He was sub­se­quent­ly trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Man who in­ter­vened

in al­ter­ca­tion shot

A con­struc­tion work­er who in­ter­vened in an al­ter­ca­tion to help his friend was shot in Erin on Sat­ur­day.

The 30-year-old vic­tim, of Los Iros, was lim­ing at Lisa’s Bar, lo­cat­ed at Los Iros Junc­tion, when he saw his friend and an­oth­er man in an al­ter­ca­tion on the SS Erin Road near Starlight Bar. He in­ter­vened in the al­ter­ca­tion and short­ly af­ter, the oth­er man pulled out a firearm and shot him on his right foot, af­ter which the sus­pect ran off.

The vic­tim was tak­en to the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was treat­ed and trans­ferred to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther treat­ment. A nurse at the health cen­tre con­tact­ed the po­lice.

Erin po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

Mi­ni mart own­ers robbed dur­ing home in­va­sion

A Mara­bel­la woman and her 25-year-old male rel­a­tive were con­front­ed by armed men in their home, tied up and robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Fri­day.

Ini­tial re­ports sat­ed that around 11.30 am, the male vic­tim and his 60-year-old rel­a­tive were in their min­i­mart, which is op­er­at­ed at their home, when a sus­pect armed with a knife en­tered and took the male vic­tim’s $6,000 iPhone.

The sus­pect was joined by two oth­er as they or­dered the vic­tims in­to the house and tied their hands and feet with duct tape as they ran­sacked the house. They es­caped with jew­ellery, an­oth­er phone, an Ama­zon Fire tablet, a bot­tle of John­nie Walk­er and a car­toon of cig­a­rettes, val­ued over $64,150.

Mara­bel­la po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.