A police sergeant shot one of three suspects who broke into his home at Palmiste in San Fernando, early yesterday morning.
The suspect, a 19-year-old man from El Socorro is under police guard in critical condition at the San Fernando General Hospital.
Police said around 2.45 am the 49-year-old police sergeant and his 22-year-old relative, a Special Reserve Policeman, were asleep when the bandits broke into their home by cutting a burglar proof gate.
They entered the SRP’s room and one of them began choking him and dragged him to the corridor.
His screams jolted the sergeant from his sleep and he hurried out of the room with his firearm.
He was confronted by the bandits, and one of them shot at him. The officer then fired two shots at the suspects who returned fire. They then ran out of the house.
When the police arrived and searched the property they saw a suspect lying in the yard with gunshot wounds to his chest, back, thigh and buttocks.
Police found a firearm on the ground about 30 feet away from the suspect.
Southern Division police are investigating.
Businessman shot
while on fake job
A businessman is in a serious condition after he was lured to San Fernando on a fake job and shot twice. Police said Rasheed Rajbally, 43, the owner of a wrecking business, was contacted by a man who wanted him to pick up a truck on Sunday night. However, Rajbally said it was too late, but he could have arranged for Monday during the day. However, he decided to take the job. His wife and two children, ages 14 and 17, went with him.
His wife and daughter were in one car while his son (the older child) was in the wrecker with him.
Police said when Rajbally got to Bertrand Street in Mon Repos around 7.45 pm he met the truck owner who told him he did not contact him or make any arrangements for his truck to be moved.
While they were speaking, a man approached with a gun pointed at Rajbally and shouted, “Who is Johnson?” He shot him in his right shoulder and lower abdomen.
The truck owner struck the gunman with a piece of wood, and he fell into a drain. The gunman tried to shoot him, but the gun did not go off.
The suspect then ran off, escaping through a track between Bertrand Street and Fonrose Street. Rajbally was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit.
A relative said yesterday that he was “coming along”. She said the family had no clue why Rajbally was targeted. (Sascha Wilson)