Po­lice of­fi­cers from the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion are search­ing for a gun­man who shot a Chi­nese na­tion­al at her restau­rant in Fan­ny Vil­lage, Point Fortin, on Thurs­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Qil­ing Zhen, 40, the pro­pri­etress of Hua Yuan Chi­nese Restau­rant on G Street in Fan­ny Vil­lage was in her busi­ness place when the gun­man opened fire at close range around 5 pm.

Zhen’s hus­band Jiansen Feng told po­lice he was work­ing in the kitchen when he heard the loud ex­plo­sion. When he rushed out, he found his wife ly­ing be­hind the re­cep­tion area, bleed­ing from her back. Feng, with the help of a rel­a­tive, im­me­di­ate­ly trans­port­ed Zhen to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal.

Wit­ness­es told in­ves­ti­ga­tors the sus­pect walked in­to the restau­rant and fired one shot in Zhen’s di­rec­tion be­fore flee­ing the scene. Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors, in­clud­ing PC Fran­cis, processed the scene and re­cov­ered a 9mm shell and a pro­jec­tile.

Zhen was lat­er trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where she un­der­went emer­gency surgery for an in­tra-ab­dom­i­nal in­jury. Po­lice said the area was can­vassed for CCTV footage. PC Ma­haraj is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Cannabis seized

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed one man in con­nec­tion with the dis­cov­ery of cannabis in To­co, while of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered more of the il­le­gal drug hid­den un­der a sheet of gal­va­nize.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, the TTPS said on Sep­tem­ber 19 be­tween 1 pm and 7 pm, of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit and the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit con­duct­ed a sting op­er­a­tion af­ter sur­veil­lance and re­con­nais­sance in the San­gre Grande dis­trict.

Of­fi­cers went to the cor­ner of To­co Main Road and Va­len­cia Old Road, where they in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle dri­ven by a 31-year-old man from Brazil Vil­lage, Ari­ma.

Po­lice searched the ve­hi­cle where they found 10 large black plas­tic-cov­ered pack­ages. Each pack­age con­tained a quan­ti­ty of cannabis weigh­ing a to­tal of 220 kilo­grammes.

The ex­hib­it and the sus­pect were tak­en to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion for fur­ther pro­cess­ing.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, in To­ba­go of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a joint pa­trol ex­er­cise at the Shir­van Road, Crown Point and Scar­bor­ough dis­tricts. Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers went to the Rice­land Trace area where they dis­cov­ered a bag with cannabis weigh­ing 40.43 grammes un­der some sheets of gal­va­nize.

—Rad­hi­ca De Sil­va