Shane Su­perville

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate, un­re­lat­ed vi­o­lent in­ci­dents that took place across the dis­trict on Sat­ur­day—two shoot­ings and two stab­bings.

The first in­ci­dent hap­pened just af­ter mid­night when a cou­ple at their Fer­oze Av­enue, Bri­an­na Dri­ve, Cunu­pia, apart­ment heard gun­shots out­side. They lat­er dis­cov­ered sev­er­al bul­let holes in the front wind­screen of their white Nis­san SUV. Cunu­pia po­lice re­spond­ed and re­cov­ered 13 spent 9 mm shells at the scene.

Around 12.30 pm, a 42-year-old sol­dier was stabbed mul­ti­ple times dur­ing a dri­ve along Po­lo Ground Road, Preysal. Po­lice said he was in­volved in an ar­gu­ment with the per­son sit­ting be­hind him, who then at­tacked him. The in­jured man pulled over and ran out with a pas­sen­ger, while the at­tack­er jumped in­to the dri­ver’s seat and drove off with an­oth­er rel­a­tive still in the ve­hi­cle. The sol­dier was hos­pi­talised in se­ri­ous but sta­ble con­di­tion.

At 3.05 pm, a 62-year-old man was am­bushed along Taitt Mad­hoo Trace, Cal­cut­ta No. 2, Freeport. A black Nis­san Note stopped in front of his Nis­san Navara, and a gun­man in a grey hood­ie ex­it­ed and opened fire, miss­ing the dri­ver. The vic­tim re­versed and es­caped. Po­lice found four spent .40 cal­i­bre shells at the scene.

The fi­nal in­ci­dent took place around 8.15 pm on Good­will Street, En­ter­prise, where a 20-year-old man was stabbed by one of his friends dur­ing an ar­gu­ment while lim­ing. He was stabbed in the chest and re­mains ward­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion.