A man and a woman are re­cov­er­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing robbed and shot at Skin­ner Park in the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the vic­tims—a 32-year-old woman from Mara­bel­la and a 31-year-old man from San­ta Rosa Heights—re­main in sta­ble con­di­tion.

Po­lice said the cou­ple was sit­ting on a bench at the park around 4.10 am when they were ap­proached by two sus­pects. One was a woman dressed in a black hood­ie and black long pants, armed with a firearm. The oth­er was a man wear­ing a black jer­sey, blue three-quar­ter pants, and a black hat.

The pair robbed the man of a wal­let val­ued at $200, con­tain­ing $700 in cash, a Sco­tia­bank deb­it card, his na­tion­al ID, and his dri­ver’s per­mit. The fe­male vic­tim’s bag, worth $100, which con­tained $102 in cash, an ANSA Bank card, her na­tion­al ID, and a Freeon cell­phone val­ued at $900, was al­so stolen.

Po­lice said a strug­gle broke out be­tween the man and the armed fe­male ban­dit, which re­sult­ed in both vic­tims be­ing shot in the legs.

They man­aged to get to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where they were treat­ed and in­ter­viewed by PCs Main­got and Ram­bar­ran.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors vis­it­ed the scene with crime scene per­son­nel but found no items of ev­i­den­tial val­ue. At­tempts to ob­tain CCTV footage from around the park were un­suc­cess­ful.

Lo­cat­ed in cen­tral San Fer­nan­do, Skin­ner Park is a pop­u­lar lo­ca­tion for morn­ing and evening ex­er­cise. How­ev­er, at night, the grounds and pavil­ion are of­ten oc­cu­pied by home­less peo­ple seek­ing shel­ter.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing. - Kevon Felmine