Po­lice shot and ap­pre­hend­ed a sus­pect al­leged­ly linked to an at­tempt­ed mur­der and sev­er­al firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Pleas­antville on Tues­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, around 4.05 pm, South­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers went to Bal­isi­er Av­enue af­ter re­ceiv­ing cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion that a man de­scribed as a “pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er” was at his res­i­dence and armed with il­le­gal firearms.

Of­fi­cers ap­proached the house from three di­rec­tions, but when they an­nounced their pres­ence, the sus­pect ran to the back of the house and at­tempt­ed to es­cape along a drain.

Po­lice claimed he was hold­ing a sil­ver ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm, while an­oth­er black ob­ject re­sem­bling a pis­tol grip was pro­trud­ing from his pants pock­et.

One of the of­fi­cers shout­ed, but the sus­pect raised the firearm to­wards him, re­sult­ing in the of­fi­cer fir­ing at him. The sus­pect then fled south along the drain, where he en­coun­tered an­oth­er group of of­fi­cers.

When the of­fi­cers called on him to stop, he climbed over a di­lap­i­dat­ed chain-link fence in­to a neigh­bour­ing yard and con­tin­ued run­ning to­wards the front of the prop­er­ty.

The sus­pect en­coun­tered an­oth­er of­fi­cer who or­dered him to drop his gun, but he al­leged­ly re­fused and was shot in the left side of his back.

He dropped the firearm and was de­tained.

Of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a Smith & Wes­son re­volver, a mag­a­zine and nine 9mm rounds.

The sus­pect was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was treat­ed and then dis­charged. He was then tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody.

The op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Ag Sgt Seecha­ran and in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Ste Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion, San Fer­nan­do Op­er­a­tions and En­quiries Unit, and the South­ern Di­vi­sion Road En­force­ment Task Force.