A gun­man hid in a drain in Point Fortin and opened fire on a cou­ple on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said Nikeisha Hen­ry, 33, of Third Street, was sit­ting in her yard with Fred Si­mon, 23, a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer of 10th Street Ex­ten­sion, Techi­er, when they heard loud gun­shots around 10:20 pm.

Hen­ry told po­lice she felt a burn­ing sen­sa­tion to her left hip and leg and when she looked down she was bleed­ing. She then saw Si­mon slumped to the ground, bleed­ing from a bul­let wound to the left side of his chest.

Hen­ry called out to her cousin Ketisha Joseph who called for an am­bu­lance.

Po­lice of­fi­cers led by PC Ram­sumair and Ed­wards from the South­west­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force re­spond­ed to the shoot­ing. Hen­ry was rushed to the Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal while Si­mon, who suf­fered a punc­tured lung, was rushed by am­bu­lance to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Hen­ry suf­fered a bul­let graze to her in­ner calve and her left hip. She dis­charged her­self from the hos­pi­tal. How­ev­er, Si­mon re­mained ward­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion up to late yes­ter­day.

Of­fi­cer lat­er re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that a man was seen hid­ing in a drain and he fired up­on the vic­tims be­fore run­ning off. No mo­tive has yet been es­tab­lished for the shoot­ing. In­sp Ne­mai and Sgt So­bie are head­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.