A 38-year-old man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents where he at­tacked two men on Thurs­day morn­ing.

In the first in­ci­dent, po­lice said a 24-year-old man was sit­ting on a bench on Pe­tit Cu­ru­caye Road at 10.45 am, when he no­ticed the sus­pect rid­ing on a mo­tor­cy­cle.

The vic­tim con­tin­ued to scroll on his phone but lat­er felt a liq­uid with a strong odour be­ing poured over him.

He looked up and saw the same man hold­ing a gas can­is­ter and threat­en­ing to burn him alive.

The man ran through a near­by yard, es­cap­ing his at­tack­er.

Short­ly af­ter, three men went to the same bench when they no­ticed the same man point­ing a gun at them.

The trio ran away, but one of them was shot in the left but­tocks.

A pass­er-by took the bleed­ing man to the hos­pi­tal, where he was be­ing treat­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter un­der­go­ing emer­gency surgery.

A re­port was made to the po­lice and of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and the San Juan CID vis­it­ed the scene where they found the sus­pect and ar­rest­ed him.

—Shane Su­perville