With blood ooz­ing from an open head wound, a for­mer head of the Po­lice Le­gal De­part­ment saw his life flash be­fore his eyes be­fore with­draw­ing his firearm and wound­ing his al­leged at­tack­ers.
“I was scared for my life. I thought that was it for me,” the vet­er­an po­lice in­spec­tor told Guardian Me­dia hours af­ter the in­ci­dent in­side the male wash­room at the Caribbean Vibes Bar in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day. His at­tack­ers, a 25-year-old woman from Rochard Road, Pe­nal and 22-year-old man from Ria Ram­nar­ine Dri­ve, Tarou­ba, were un­der­go­ing treat­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day.
Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, it was around 4 am when the in­spec­tor went to use the wash­room in a bar along the South­ern Main Road. While there, he ob­served two peo­ple dressed in men's cloth­ing walked in be­hind him. With­in sec­onds, he was at­tacked. The in­spec­tor with­drew his li­cenced firearm and fired sev­er­al shots at the al­leged at­tack­ers. The woman was shot in the chest and stom­ach while the man was shot in the stom­ach. 
The in­spec­tor then ran out of the bar and drove to the Cou­va Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty (CD­HF) for treat­ment. He re­ceived sev­er­al stitch­es on his head and while there, he con­tact­ed an As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent from the South­ern Di­vi­sion to re­port the in­ci­dent.

Mara­bel­la po­lice and se­nior of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion led by Snr Supt Wayne Mo­hammed re­spond­ed to the shoot­ing. The al­leged at­tack­ers were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal where the woman was ward­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion.
Speak­ing with the in­spec­tor yes­ter­day, he ex­plained that he went to pur­chase some­thing to eat in San Fer­nan­do and while on his way home, he need­ed to use a wash­room and saw the bar open. As soon as he walked in­to the wash­room, he no­ticed that he was be­ing fol­lowed.
“One was a guy and the oth­er was a woman dressed like a man. The guy came be­hind me, grabbed me and hit me with a Carib bot­tle on my head. The woman then pushed her hand in my pock­et to get my wal­let and my mon­ey. I was try­ing to fight my way out of the toi­let and she pulled a knife from her waist and as she ad­vanced to­wards me, I got away. I pulled out my li­cenced firearm be­cause I was fear­ful for my life.”

When Mo­hammed and crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors went to the bar, the in­spec­tor was called in to il­lus­trate the in­ci­dent. A news team vis­it­ed the bar yes­ter­day and was told that nei­ther the own­er nor the night-shift bar­tenders were around. In­side the cramped wash­room were the bul­let marks on the tiles that ver­i­fied that there was a shoot­ing in the bath­room.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were try­ing to re­trieve CCTV footage of the in­ci­dent to con­firm that the in­spec­tor was fol­lowed in­to the wash­room. State­ments are ex­pect­ed to be tak­en from the al­leged at­tack­ers. So far, po­lice have found that the man, a rel­a­tive to a for­mer T&T Olympian, had sev­er­al drug charges on his crim­i­nal record. The in­spec­tor, who is on leave, sus­pects that be­cause he was a stranger to the area, his at­tack­ers be­lieved he was an easy prey.