Limers foil attempted chain-snatching in Diego Martin

Shane Su­perville

A group of men lim­ing at a Diego Mar­tin bar came to the aid of a pa­tron who was at­tacked by two ban­dits on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the vic­tim was lim­ing at a busi­ness on the cor­ner of Tem­ple Street and St Lu­cien Road around 4.15 pm when the sus­pects ap­proached him. One of the ban­dits tried to snatch the man’s gold chain.

The vic­tim held on­to the at­tack­er and the two strug­gled un­til near­by pa­trons in­ter­vened, briefly sub­du­ing the sus­pect.

How­ev­er, the sec­ond ban­dit pulled out a pis­tol and fired a shot in­to the air, caus­ing the pa­trons to scat­ter and giv­ing both sus­pects the op­por­tu­ni­ty to es­cape.

Of­fi­cers from the West End Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to the scene and re­cov­ered a sin­gle spent shell.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.