Se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel as­signed to the TSTT EMR Ex­change in Port-of-Spain, shot at two armed men who broke in­to the fa­cil­i­ty on Tues­day.

No one was in­jured dur­ing the ex­change of gun­fire, which oc­curred around 9.05 am.

Po­lice said es­tate cor­po­ral Nixon Alexan­der was on du­ty at the ware­house, in com­pa­ny with es­tate con­sta­ble Franklin Pierre when they ob­served a hole in the south­ern perime­ter wall.

They con­front­ed the first sus­pect, whose head was cov­ered with a white plas­tic bag, as he crawled through the hole – the of­fi­cers forced the in­trud­er to scram­ble back out.

Min­utes lat­er, he and a sec­ond sus­pect both pushed their way through the hole and en­tered the com­pound.

The sec­ond sus­pect re­port­ed­ly pulled a gun from his waist and point­ed it in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers.

As Alexan­der iden­ti­fied him­self as a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer and or­dered the sus­pects to stop, the armed man al­leged­ly fired in their di­rec­tion, prompt­ing him to dis­charge a sin­gle round from his Moss­berg 12-gauge shot­gun.

The sus­pects re­port­ed­ly fired at the of­fi­cers again as they head­ed to­wards the hole, fol­low­ing which sev­er­al gun­shots were heard as they fled.