Shane Su­perville 

Po­lice opened fire on armed sus­pects in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day—one in Orop­une Gar­dens and the oth­er in Eliz­a­beth Gar­dens, St Joseph.

In the first in­ci­dent, of­fi­cers were on pa­trol at 4 am when they re­ceived a re­port of a sus­pi­cious man seen on 17th Street, Orop­une Gar­dens. While re­spond­ing, they got a sec­ond alert that a sil­ver Nis­san Almera had just been stolen on Third Av­enue.

The of­fi­cers lat­er spot­ted the ve­hi­cle and in­ter­cept­ed it by block­ing its path. One of the oc­cu­pants leaned out of the front pas­sen­ger-side win­dow and point­ed a gun at them.

Po­lice re­turned fire. The gun­man jumped out of the ve­hi­cle and es­caped on foot. The dri­ver then crashed the Almera in­to a sil­ver Toy­ota Field­er parked at the road­side. Of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed the dri­ver and took him to the Pi­ar­co Po­lice Sta­tion.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, at 2.25 pm, of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a bur­glary at Eliz­a­beth Gar­dens, St Joseph. On ar­riv­ing, they saw a man jump over a wall and run to­ward a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da parked near­by.

Po­lice said the man, who was armed with a pis­tol, point­ed the weapon at them. They opened fire but missed. The sus­pect got in­to the car and drove off.

De­spite co­or­di­nat­ed search­es in the area, po­lice were un­able to lo­cate the man or the get­away ve­hi­cle.