Police believe an argument over a fake gold chain by four men in a car eventually led to a shooting that left two of them wounded at hospital and two on the run last night.
According to police, the men were in a white Nissan Wingroad just outside the nearby Grand Bazaar Mall in Valsayn when gunshots were heard around 2 pm. Four men were then seen running out the car in four different directions.
Two men later collapsed and were assisted by passersby and taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where they remained under police guard last night. The other two escaped.
Police said they also received information that the men may have been conducting “a business transaction” before the interaction went from volatile to violent.
The shooting caused a brief stir at the Eric Williams Medical Complex after officials were telephoned and told to be on standby for several victims from a shooting incident at the mall, the T&T Guardian was told. As it turned out the incident did not occur in the mall and it was only the two men who needed help.
Up to press time the other two men were still on the run. Officers of the St Joseph Police Station are continuing investigations.—JL