Elec­tion work­ers at a mock polling sta­tion along Up­per Mt Hope Road, Mt Hope, were fright­ened yes­ter­day, af­ter gun­shots were fired less than 150 feet from where they were sta­tioned.

In­di­cat­ing that the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 1.15 pm near Sun­set Dri­ve and Mt Hope Road, one woman said, “It left us a bit shaky and un­easy. It is not some­thing we are ac­cus­tomed to at this time.”

A sec­ond woman said it had left them a bit fear­ful, while an­oth­er chimed in, “I find they too idle ... hot, hot sun, so?”

The group re­ferred to the in­tim­ida­to­ry act as “mis­chie­vous” but said it had not de­terred them from their work.

They dis­missed claims that some­one had set off fire­works, a fact that was lat­er con­firmed by in­ves­ti­ga­tors from the San Juan CSI, who vis­it­ed the scene and re­trieved two spent 9 mm shells.

A de­scrip­tion of a male sus­pect who was clad in blue three-quar­ter pants and a white T-shirt, with a black jer­sey cov­er­ing his face and head, was giv­en to the po­lice.

At Gor­don Street, Mt Hope, work­ers at two dif­fer­ent mock polling sta­tions said they had not heard the gun­shots.

How­ev­er, one woman said she re­ceived a phone call in­form­ing her of what had hap­pened and said she was re­port­ed­ly told the work­ers had to “mind our busi­ness.”

Mean­while, po­lice of­fi­cials were, up to last evening, in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports of a sec­ond shoot­ing in the Mt Lam­bert/Mt D’or area, which they said could have been an­oth­er act in­tend­ed to fright­en per­sons from go­ing out to cast their vote.