Mark Bas­sant

Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two teenagers, were shot and wound­ed in Waller­field on Wednes­day night af­ter gun­men opened fire on them.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors told Guardian Me­dia that 17-year-old Ka­reem Patrick, Shaz­im Hy­po­lite,16 and An­to­nio Mar­cano, 29, all from the Waller­field area, were stand­ing near a shop at Cha­co­nia Dri­ve around 8.20 pm when two gun­men came out of a ve­hi­cle and opened fire.

The three vic­tims were hit in their low­er bod­ies. The gun­men then es­caped in the wait­ing car.

The wound­ed teens and the man were tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal where they were treat­ed.

Se­nior po­lice sources told Guardian Me­dia that the men's in­juries are non-life threat­en­ing. They be­lieve the shoot­ing in­ci­dent stemmed from an is­sue in­volv­ing a woman.

Sgt Haynes of the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion is on the scene and con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ter.

Ear­li­er Wednes­day there were two oth­er shoot­ings in East Trinidad.

One in Aranguez left 25-year-old Isi­ah Chioke Cadet dead and an­oth­er uniden­ti­fied man in­jured just af­ter 3 pm, while around noon in Mount Lam­bert two men were shot and in­jured in an un­con­nect­ed in­ci­dent.