Sascha Wil­son

A 17-year-old school­boy was shot four times near his home in New Grant last night. The Form Five stu­dent of Table­land Sec­ondary School is ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. 

Po­lice said around 9.15 pm the teenag­er was stand­ing at the en­trance of Dion's Mi­ni Mart at Sixth Com­pa­ny Cir­cu­lar Road when a man wear­ing a face mask and dark cloth­ing came out of a ve­hi­cle, ap­proached the teenag­er and fired sev­er­al shots at him. 

The boy tried to run but he was shot in his his pelvic re­gion, right knee and left thigh. He al­so suf­fered a lac­er­a­tion ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8 cm long and 1 cm wide to the right jaw. The sus­pect es­caped in the same ve­hi­cle he ar­rived in. 

The teenag­er's fa­ther took him to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he was treat­ed and trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do hos­pi­tal. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cov­ered six spent shells and one pro­jec­tile at the scene. The mo­tive is still un­known, po­lice said. Ag Cpl Khan of the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.