A Charlotte Street fruit vendor was rushed to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital after he was shot in the neck by a stray bullet from an alleged gang-related shooting yesterday.
Nigel Nandlal, 44, was said to be in critical but stable condition up to late yesterday. He was selling at his fruit stall on Inn Hing Supermarket’s compound, Charlotte Street, Port-of-Spain, just after 2 pm when he was hit by a stray bullet that came from the vicinity of the nearby Duke and Charlotte Street corner.
The Port-of-Spain CID received a report that there was a bottle throwing incident near the area around 1 pm, where the bullet came from, prior to Nandlal being shot.
CID said a gunman returned a little after 2 pm and fired indiscriminately at people in the crowd and Nandlal was an innocent bystander.
Pedestrians, shoppers and vendors scampered for safety.
A vendor called on Port-of-Spain Mayor Joel Martinez to provide police protection for Charlotte Street vendors as he had promised.