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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Taxi driver shot in attempted robbery

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39 days ago
20250815

A taxi dri­ver was shot dur­ing a hold-up in Pe­nal on Wednes­day morn­ing, but quick ac­tion by se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers led to the ar­rest of two Venezue­lan na­tion­als min­utes lat­er.

Around 6 am, the 55-year-old dri­ver picked up a 33-year-old man at Mo­hess Road Ex­ten­sion, who sat in the front seat of his sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da.

About ten min­utes lat­er, he picked up the sus­pects Clarke Road, near a pond. As the ve­hi­cle neared the Her­itage com­pound, the dri­ver felt a gun bar­rel pressed to the back of his head and heard one of the sus­pects say, “Re­lax.”

The dri­ver stopped, but when he tried to get out, the armed as­sailant fol­lowed and grabbed him. Dur­ing the strug­gle, the dri­ver was shot in his right thigh. The front-seat pas­sen­ger fled, and the in­jured dri­ver ran to­ward the Her­itage com­pound, where he alert­ed two se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers. The of­fi­cers gave chase in their ve­hi­cle, caught the sus­pects, and re­cov­ered a Smith & Wes­son re­volver with two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. The sus­pects and the weapon were hand­ed over to po­lice. The taxi dri­ver was treat­ed and dis­charged. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing. —Sascha Wil­son


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