32-year-old Daniel Richards, of Ed­ward Street, Princes Town ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate In­di­ra Misir-Go­sine at the Princes Town Mag­is­trates’ Court yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to this re­lease he was charged with shoot­ing with in­tent, pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of a firearm to en­dan­ger life, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life, and ma­li­cious dam­age on Sun­day 3rd April 2022.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

A Princes Town man charged with six of­fences was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore Mag­is­trate In­di­ra Misir-Go­sine at the Princes Town Mag­is­trates’ Court yes­ter­day.

DANIEL RICHARDS, 32, of Ed­ward Street, Princes Town was charged with shoot­ing with in­tent, pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of a firearm to en­dan­ger life, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life, and ma­li­cious dam­age on Sun­day 3rd April 2022.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to May 3rd, 2022.

The charges stem from an in­ci­dent that oc­curred on Sat­ur­day 26th March 2022, where ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, a 37-year-old man was al­leged­ly shot at while stand­ing on the porch of his fa­ther’s home in Princes Town. The man re­port­ed to po­lice that a ve­hi­cle stopped in front of the res­i­dence, a man stepped out of the ve­hi­cle and then al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm in his di­rec­tion. Af­ter hear­ing a loud ex­plo­sion, the man said he ran to safe­ty, then heard four more loud ex­plo­sions as the ve­hi­cle drove away. Up­on check­ing he ob­served a hole in the left front door and left front tyre of his ve­hi­cle which was parked on the road­way.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Princes Town Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) led to the ar­rest of a sus­pect on Sat­ur­day 2nd March, who was sub­se­quent­ly charged with six of­fences aris­ing out of the al­leged in­ci­dent on Sun­day 3rd April.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were spear­head­ed by Sgt Teeluck and Cpl (Ag.) Khan and co­or­di­nat­ed by PC Den­nis of the Princes Town Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID).