Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter 

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are search­ing for an as­sailant who shot a 30-year-old man as he re­turned to his South Oropouche home on Mon­day night.

The vic­tim, a dri­ver, had just ar­rived at his Ceme­tery Street home from work and was lock­ing his Almera, which was parked in front of the house, when he was ap­proached by a masked gun­man dressed in dark cloth­ing and a hood­ie.

The gun­man opened fire, hit­ting the vic­tim in the mid-chest, left side of the back and up­per left shoul­der.

The sus­pect then fled through the near­by ceme­tery and es­caped.

An EHS am­bu­lance trans­port­ed the vic­tim to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he is said to be in sta­ble con­di­tion.

Of­fi­cers from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion re­spond­ed, and Sgt Siew is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.