AN­NA-LISA PAUL

Se­nior Re­porter

an­nal­isa.paul@guardian.co.tt

A teenag­er was among two peo­ple shot in La Hor­quet­ta on Wednes­day night. These were among sev­er­al in­ci­dents which oc­curred be­tween Tues­day and Wednes­day.

In the first in­ci­dent, around 7.30 pm, the 25-year-old vic­tim, of Char­lie Davis Street, Phase 4, La Hor­quet­ta, was stand­ing in his yard with his moth­er and niece when a masked gun­man walked up and opened fire on him.
A to­tal of 13 spent 9mm shells and two live rounds were re­cov­ered at the scene.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, which oc­curred close to 8.05 pm, a 19-year-old, of Cor­ner Stone Cir­cu­lar, Phase 7, was shot by two masked men as he stood in front of his house.

The vic­tim told po­lice he saw the hood­ed sus­pects run­ning to­wards him with their guns point­ed.
As he at­tempt­ed to run, the sus­pects be­gan shoot­ing but ran off af­ter he raised an alarm.
Both vic­tims were tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Mean­while, an ac­coun­tant on her way home on Tues­day night was shot sev­er­al times by armed men who blocked her car in Las Lo­mas.

The 63-year-old woman, of Brazil Vil­lage, San Raphael, was dri­ving when a white car pulled in front of her.
Armed men ex­it­ed the car and at­tempt­ed to open her door even as they opened fire.

De­spite bleed­ing from wounds to the chest and right arm, the vic­tim man­aged to dri­ve to the Las Lo­mas Po­lice Post, where she was tak­en for med­ical care by of­fi­cers.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a 62-year-old San­gre Grande man who went to make a de­liv­ery to a cus­tomer in Laven­tille on Wednes­day morn­ing, was robbed by six peo­ple, in­clud­ing a woman.
As he drove up in a sil­ver Hyundai San­ta Fe to make a de­liv­ery to a per­son who gave their name as “Kalon­ji,” the vic­tim was met by a woman and five men, one of whom was armed with a gun. He was robbed of his cell­phone, wal­let and $200 in cash.
A con­tain­er which had an undis­closed sum of cash and sev­er­al pack­ages was al­so tak­en.

A ve­hi­cle be­long­ing to a fire­man who was stay­ing at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port-of-Spain, was bro­ken in­to and sev­er­al items stolen.

The 35-year-old of­fi­cer, of Debe, re­port­ed­ly parked his white Nis­san Navara on the ho­tel’s com­pound around 11.45 am on Wednes­day, be­fore go­ing in to se­cure a room to spend the night.

Around 7.25 pm, the of­fi­cer al­leged­ly looked through a win­dow on the eighth floor to check the ve­hi­cle and saw the tray cov­er open.

Up­on check­ing, he no­ticed his Fire Ser­vice-is­sued work safe­ty boots, beret and oth­er items miss­ing.