RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

A men­tal­ly ill man, who is said to be an out­pa­tient of St Ann's Men­tal Hos­pi­tal, al­leged­ly went on a ram­page on Thurs­day, threat­en­ing vil­lagers in the Matelot area.

Po­lice of­fi­cers who re­spond­ed on the scene were al­so threat­ened.

The men­tal­ly ill man, who was armed with a cut­lass and a knife, re­port­ed­ly at­tempt­ed to chop one of the po­lice of­fi­cers.  How­ev­er, the of­fi­cer's part­ner drew his ser­vice firearm and fired two shots at the men­tal­ly ill man, who man­aged to es­cape in­jury and al­so evade the of­fi­cers by run­ning away in­to near­by bush­es.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at about 5:24 pm along the Paria Main Road.

Dur­ing a sub­se­quent search for the out­pa­tient, a team of po­lice of­fi­cers found the man, sub­dued him and ar­rest­ed him.

The man was tak­en to the To­co Po­lice Sta­tion where he is ex­pect­ed to be charged.