Dutch Quarter:--- One person is nursing a gunshot wound after being shot in Dutch Quarter on Wednesday afternoon, while detectives are busy investigating the arson of a car that was found in Oyster Pond. SMN News learnt that the gunman who shot the unknown person in Dutch Quarter drove to Oyster Pond where he set the car he was driving alight. Chief of Police Peter De Witte confirmed that one person was shot during a shooting incident on Wednesday afternoon. Police blocked off the Dutch Quarter main road as they investigated the shooting. In the meantime, police spokesman Ricardo Henson said that approximately 3pm several patrols and detectives were directed to the area to investigate a shooting. Henson said the victim received one gunshot wound to his leg and no one was arrested up to press time.
The police spokesman said that while rumours were circulating that the gunman fled in a grey jeep, police later found the vehicle on the Old Oyster Pond Road burning. They said it is believed that this shooting maybe related to other cases, but the police he said could not confirm if that was indeed the case since the investigation is in its preliminary stages.
In an unrelated incident on Tuesday, police responded to another shooting that took place in the Pelican Key area. Henson said in his police report that an attempted robbery took place at the residence of an elderly couple. Preliminary investigations show that at least three persons attempted the armed robbery and they were driving in a small white vehicle with license plate M-3804. The police spokesman said one of the suspects was armed with a rifle and when they were not able to proceed with the robbery that suspect fled the scene in the white vehicle. Several police patrols responded when they were informed of the incident. The suspects were spotted on Welfare Road Cole Bay in close proximity of the Kruythoff round-a-bout. Police set up a barricade in the vicinity of Daily Extra where the car was stopped and the suspects were arrested. Police found inside the vehicle a machete, rifle, and masks all of which were confiscated for further investigation.