Ak­ile Si­mon

A Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lor re­mained ward­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal af­ter he was shot in the back in Mt Hope about 11 am yes­ter­day.

St Servius Pam­phille, who is al­so em­ployed with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC), was am­bushed while check­ing a me­ter out­side a house in the area. He was ap­proached by a group of men who at­tempt­ed to rob him of his gold chain.

A strug­gle re­port­ed­ly en­sued and Pam­phille, a coun­cil­lor with the Ari­ma Bor­ough Coun­cil, was shot. The bul­let en­tered his back and ex­it­ed through his chest. Pam­phille, who is pop­u­lar­ly known as Clint, was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope, where he un­der­went emer­gency surgery.