The two other suspects involved in Wednesday’s gun attack against two off-duty police officers were arrested yesterday.
Officers from the North Eastern Divisional Task Force held the suspects in two separate incidents.
One of them tried to disguise himself by wearing a hijab, a headpiece worn by Muslims to conceal their face.
Police said that suspect, a 35-year-old man of Valencia, was held hiding in some bushes suffering from gunshot injuries in Charlieville, Chaguanas. They believe he stole the Muslim wear from someone’s clothesline. He was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, to undergo emergency surgery.
The other suspect, a Barataria man, was held soon after the gunfight with the police.
On Wednesday around 2.30 pm, PCs Mervyn Williams and Adesh Mano were about to enter Williams’ home at Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas, when they were accosted by three suspects.
The off-duty officers exchanged gunfire with the bandits before they escaped in a Nissan AD wagon.
Williams was shot in the foot and taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility and then was transferred to EWMSC for treatment.
Mano alerted his colleagues and several units responded. Police arrested the third suspect shortly after the crime near the Monroe Road Flyover after the suspects abandoned the vehicle.