A police officer is currently hospitalised following a domestic dispute in which he was allegedly shot with his own gun at his home in Barataria on Wednesday night.
According to a police report, at about 10:15 pm Ag Cpl Boney incompany with PC Morris, PC Gopaul and WPC Borneo responded to a report of shooting at #40 11th street Barataria.
On arrival they met a woman who identified herself and informed them that she had an altercation with her husband, who is a police officer and is presently assigned to Homicide Region lI.
The woman told the officers that she and her husband began fighting during which he allegedly picked up a knife and attacked her.She said she then picked up his firearm a black Sig Sauer pistol which was on a small folding table in the living room and shot him.
The police officer who was struck on the right side of the abdomen fell to the ground in the living room area. The woman subsequently contacted the EHS and the police via 999.
The officers took the wounded officer to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex Accident and Emergency where he was treated and warded in a stable condition.