One man died af­ter be­ing shot by a po­lice of­fi­cer at the Aranguez Sa­van­nah, San Juan, on the week­end, while his ac­com­plices fled the scene.

The 41-year-old of­fi­cer was re­port­ed­ly jog­ging with his son in the north­ern part of the Aranguez Sa­van­nah close to the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) at 9.45 pm on Sun­day, when they were con­front­ed by three men.

Po­lice said one of the men point­ed a gun at the duo and an­nounced a rob­bery, stat­ing, “Ah boy, tonight is for al­lyuh. Gimme what al­lyuh have.”

How­ev­er, draw­ing his li­censed Glock, the of­fi­cer re­port­ed­ly fired sev­er­al times in the di­rec­tion of the sus­pects, hit­ting one of them in the chest.
As the in­jured man col­lapsed on the ground, one of the oth­er men ran west along the PBR, while the third man ran north across the PBR to­wards Broome Street.

The au­thor­i­ties were alert­ed and of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force ar­rived and took the in­jured man to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was treat­ed. How­ev­er, he suc­cumbed to in­juries and was pro­nounced dead. He re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.