FOUR (4) Wounded In Princes Town Drive-By Shooting — Police Investigating

Four (4) persons, including two (2) women, are currently hospitalized following a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in New Grant, Princes Town, on Friday night (15th September 2023).

According to reports, the vic­tims, one of whom is a Venezue­lan na­tion­al, were lim­ing around 9:45 PM at Church Road Junc­tion, Sixth Com­pa­ny Cir­cu­lar Road, near Shel­don’s Shop, when a white Nis­san AD wag­on pulled up. The oc­cu­pants opened fire on the group, hit­ting two (2) men, a 42-year-old and a 40-year-old, of San Fer­nan­do and New Grant re­spec­tive­ly, a 28-year-old Venezue­lan woman and a 27-year-old woman of New Grant. They were all treat­ed at the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty. The 40-year-old vic­tim, however, was sent to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther treat­ment.

WATCH CCTV FOOTAGE OF THE SHOOTING

Po­lice Of­fi­cers lat­er dis­cov­ered the wag­on, with no reg­is­tra­tion plates, ­abandoned in a bushy area off Down­ing Trace, Pe­tite Cafe. The wag­on was found to have been re­port­ed stolen from the Tu­na­puna area on 25th Au­gust 2023.

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­trieved three (3) spent 5.56 shells in­side the wag­on.

Investigations are continuing by Officers of the Princes Town Po­lice Station.

​[Source: T&T Guardian]