An­na-Lisa Paul

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Amon An­drews re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery yes­ter­day.

Hours af­ter the 51-year-old was hos­pi­talised, se­nior of­fi­cials of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) vis­it­ed the in­jured of­fi­cer at hos­pi­tal.

Pray­ing for Amon’s speedy re­cov­ery dur­ing a vis­it to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope – Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Suzette Mar­tin; and Snr Supt of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, Vern­ly Gift, found him to be alert, de­spite his wounds.

Amon, who was at­tached to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion, was re­port­ed­ly head­ing to his home at Skin­ner Street, off Con­stan­tine Street, Arou­ca, around 2 am on Oc­to­ber 1, when he was al­leged­ly ap­proached by the lone gun­man who an­nounced a rob­bery.

It is be­lieved Amon strug­gled with the sus­pect, dur­ing which time he was shot in the chest, up­per mid back, and left leg – and left in a bloody heap on the road.

Amon was found by neigh­bours and his com­mon law wife around 2.45 am, close to the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route and rushed to the hos­pi­tal where he was found to have suf­fered dam­age to his lungs and low­er spinal cord.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day joined the TTPS to of­fer prayers for Amon’s con­tin­ued re­cov­ery.