Police shoot wanted man in Point Fortin

Sascha Wil­son

A 35-year-old sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al crimes was shot by po­lice dur­ing his ar­rest in Point Fortin on Wednes­day.

Po­lice said that at about 5.30 a.m., of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Unit went to For­tune Road, Egypt Vil­lage, Point Fortin, af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion that the sus­pect was at a house in the area.

On see­ing the of­fi­cers, the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly jumped through a win­dow and point­ed an ob­ject re­sem­bling a gun at them. One of­fi­cer fired two shots, caus­ing the sus­pect to fall to the ground. He lat­er got up and ran in­to near­by bush­es.

Po­lice cor­doned off and searched the area, where they found a re­volver con­tain­ing five brass cylin­dri­cal ob­jects at the spot where the sus­pect had fall­en. A search of the house, con­duct­ed in the pres­ence of the sus­pect’s com­mon-law wife, led to the dis­cov­ery of three rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion in­side a black-and-white glove in a chest of draw­ers. She was ar­rest­ed.

With the as­sis­tance of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, po­lice launched a man­hunt and, at about 6.45 p.m., found the sus­pect hid­ing in an out­door toi­let at Her­cules Av­enue, Egypt Vil­lage.

The sus­pect, who was bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds to his right fore­arm, was tak­en to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Po­lice said the sus­pect is want­ed for sev­er­al rob­beries and shoot­ing of­fences in the South­ern Di­vi­sion and is ex­pect­ed to be placed on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades. The sus­pect al­so lives in Har­mo­ny Hall, Gas­par­il­lo.