A po­lice of­fi­cer as­signed to the In­ter-Agency Task Force and liv­ing at Green­vale, La Hor­quet­ta, was forced to open fire on two men as they at­tempt­ed to steal his car yes­ter­day morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the of­fi­cer was re­port­ed­ly awak­ened by nois­es out­side his bed­room win­dow around 2.20 am and looked out to see two sus­pects in his front yard. An armed man, who was stand­ing next to a light grey Hyundai Ac­cent, in which the sec­ond sus­pect was seat­ed, said, “Pull back your cur­tains or else I will kill yuh.”

The of­fi­cer reached for his per­son­al firearm and dis­charged sev­er­al shots in the di­rec­tion of the sus­pects as they at­tempt­ed to dri­ve off in his car.

As the car ran off the road and crashed in­to a drain on the east­ern side of the road, the sus­pects took off run­ning. The scene was processed and of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a to­tal of ten 9 mm spent shell cas­ings. The of­fi­cer’s car, which had bul­let holes in the right dri­ver’s side door, rear wind­screen, and right-wing mir­ror, was lat­er wrecked to the La Hor­quet­ta Po­lice Sta­tion as po­lice car­ried out their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

—An­na-Lisa Paul