A ban­dit, pos­ing as a pas­sen­ger, shot a 48-year-old taxi dri­ver in the shoul­der dur­ing a heist at Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said Shirv­ing­ton Wise­man, of Freeport, was dri­ving his grey Nis­san Ti­i­da, val­ued at about $30,000, around 9 pm on Fri­day when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

Wise­man had picked up the pas­sen­ger at Busy Cor­ner, Ch­agua­nas and was head­ing east along Lime Head Road when they reached the vicin­i­ty of an apart­ment build­ing.

The pas­sen­ger then al­leged­ly an­nounced a rob­bery and point­ed what ap­peared to be a firearm at Wise­man.

A strug­gle fol­lowed and Wise­man told po­lice he heard a loud ex­plo­sion.

Af­ter the strug­gle, Wise­man hand­ed over the ve­hi­cle and ex­it­ed.

He sub­se­quent­ly no­ticed that he had been wound­ed in his right shoul­der.

The sus­pect then drove away east along Lime Head Road in the stolen Nis­san Ti­i­da. A pass­er-by took Wise­man to a health fa­cil­i­ty in Ch­agua­nas for med­ical at­ten­tion.

Po­lice de­scribed the sus­pect as a slim-built man, with a light-brown com­plex­ion and short hair­style. He was re­port­ed­ly armed with a firearm.

Po­lice can­vassed the area for CCTV cam­eras while an All Points Bul­letin was cir­cu­lat­ed with de­tails of the stolen ve­hi­cle and sus­pect.

Their ef­forts led Freeport CID of­fi­cers to in­for­ma­tion about the where­abouts of the stolen ve­hi­cle.

The of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the Freeport Charge Room and CDTF Area South, went to a dirt road off the Ca­paro Val­ley-Bras­so Road, where they found the grey Nis­san Ti­i­da in­tact.

Checks were made in the sur­round­ing area for the sus­pect, but he was not found.

The ve­hi­cle was sub­se­quent­ly towed to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion, where Cen­tral Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors ex­am­ined the car for pos­si­ble foren­sic ev­i­dence.

No ar­rests have yet been made and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.