RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca­s­ookraj@gmail.com

Two se­cu­ri­ty guards chased af­ter a thief and shot him in the leg af­ter he stole a cell­phone from a Her­itage site on East­er Mon­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 9 am, the of­fi­cers were on du­ty at Block 10 Her­itage Guapo when the thief walked in­to the guard booth and picked up a Sam­sung cell­phone val­ued at $1500. He then walked away.

The guards chased af­ter the thief who ran along Field Road in­to a res­i­dent’s house.

The res­i­dent and his wife were sit­ting un­der a shed in front of his house when they ran in­to the house and knocked down a 40” LG flatscreen tele­vi­sion.

He grabbed a kitchen knife, ran out of the house and con­front­ed the two guards.

One of the guards drew his com­pa­ny-is­sued firearm and fired two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion hit­ting the thief in the right hand and left calf.

The man ran along the road­way where he was even­tu­al­ly held.

A strug­gle en­sued and the thief at­tacked the se­cu­ri­ty guard and es­caped.

A man­hunt was set up and the thief was lat­er ar­rest­ed in a forest­ed area of Mc Ken­zie Road Point Fortin by of­fi­cers of the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion.

He is now ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion at the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.