RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are search­ing for an in­jured ban­dit who may have been shot af­ter al­leged­ly fir­ing at of­fi­cers dur­ing a chase fol­low­ing a rob­bery in San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said at 5.50 am, Mon Re­pos of­fi­cers PC Sama­roo and PC Ghisyawan, along with Pri­vates Cyrus and Je­re­mi­ah, from the T&T Reg­i­ment, re­spond­ed to a rob­bery at Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road, Co­coyea Vil­lage. The sus­pect, de­scribed as slim with a dark com­plex­ion, ran away.

The of­fi­cers spot­ted him walk­ing along Corinth Road. When the sus­pect no­ticed the ap­proach­ing po­lice ve­hi­cle, he ran through the res­i­den­tial area of Aerides Dri­ve and in­to Corinth Hills, close­ly fol­lowed by the po­lice.

Dur­ing the pur­suit, the sus­pect al­leged­ly point­ed a gun at the of­fi­cers.

PC Sama­roo fired two shots in the sus­pect’s di­rec­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the chase con­tin­ued and the sus­pect again point­ed his gun at the of­fi­cers near Ka­lym­nos Cir­cu­lar, where PC Sama­roo fired two more shots. The sus­pect again fled, leav­ing droplets of blood at the scene, in­di­cat­ing he may have been in­jured.

Po­lice sub­se­quent­ly alert­ed all med­ical in­sti­tu­tions to be on the look­out for the sus­pect.

A search of the area re­vealed blood be­hind apart­ments and a wa­ter tank dam­aged by gun­fire. DNA sam­ples were col­lect­ed for test­ing. The sus­pect re­mains at large, and po­lice led by Supt Heera­man Singh are con­tin­u­ing their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.