One woman had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal for a gun­shot wound fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the 27-year-old of East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille was in­jured around 1.18 am on Ju­ly 31, when she stood in front of Har­ry’s Punch cart which was sta­tion­ary out­side New City Mall, In­de­pen­dence Square.

Around 1:08 am on Sun­day, of­fi­cers at Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion, view­ing cam­era footage, ob­served a white Nis­san Ti­i­da parked at the top of Pic­cadil­ly Street in the vicin­i­ty of the Drag Mall and an un­known man re­port­ed­ly con­duct­ing sur­veil­lance on the po­lice sta­tion.

As two of­fi­cers ap­proached the man, he quick­ly en­tered the wait­ing ve­hi­cle which sped off.

De­spite in­struc­tions to stop by the of­fi­cers, the dri­ver is said to have con­tin­ued to evade law­men and the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly fired two shots in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers who re­turned fire.

As the of­fi­cers gave chase on foot along In­de­pen­dence Square South, the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly shot at the of­fi­cers a sec­ond time, again prompt­ing them to re­turn fire, be­fore the car drove to­wards South Quay.

As the two of­fi­cers re­turned to the sta­tion and called for back-up, they re­ceived a re­port of a woman suf­fer­ing from gun­shot wounds.

Up­on ar­riv­ing at New City Mall, they saw the woman bleed­ing from a wound to her right foot.

She claimed the gun­shots had em­anat­ed from the George Street area.

The vic­tim was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH) where she was treat­ed and re­mains in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

As part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, of­fi­cers viewed cam­era footage go­ing back sev­er­al hours and ob­served the same white Ti­i­da dri­ving around the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion sev­er­al times, be­fore park­ing at Pic­cadil­ly Street around 12.25 am.

They al­so ob­served the sus­pect at­tempt­ing to gain ac­cess to the sta­tion via the en­trance on the west­ern side.

Of­fi­cers were un­able to pro­vide a mo­tive for the in­ci­dent but yes­ter­day said se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures had been in­creased in and around the sta­tion.