RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

A woman with dual cit­i­zen­ship (Venezuela and T&T) was shot and wound­ed dur­ing a home in­va­sion and rob­bery at her home in Ari­ma, last evening.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as An­dreina Briceño Brown, di­rec­tor of the Ari­ma His­pan­ic Cul­tur­al Cen­tre (HCC).

Her part­ner, a 56-year-old man of #59 Tumpuna Gar­dens in Ari­ma, was robbed of a gold chain val­ued at TT$14,000 and a Sam­sung J4 cell phone val­ued $1,000.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 7:30 pm on Mon­day, both vic­tims had just re­turned home, hav­ing gone to a su­per­mar­ket at Co­corite Road in Ari­ma, when they were ac­cost­ed by three men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

Po­lice said the male vic­tim was re­lieved of his per­son­al be­long­ings while both he and his part­ner were made to lie on the floor.

Af­ter rob­bing the man, the armed thief shot the woman in the left shoul­der.

The sus­pects then es­caped in a wait­ing ve­hi­cle by pro­ceed­ing west along Tumpuna Gar­dens, Ari­ma.

The woman was tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal by her part­ner, where she giv­en med­ical at­ten­tion.

She is said to be in a sta­ble con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

An­dreina Briceño Brown was born in Mara­cai­bo, Zu­lia State, Venezuela. A mar­ried moth­er of three, she has been liv­ing in Trinidad for 20 years. She is a parish­ioner of San­ta Rosa, Ari­ma. As Di­rec­tor of the Ari­ma His­pan­ic Cul­tur­al Cen­tre (HCC), she is in­volved in the parish min­istry for mi­grants and refugees.

PC Lam­bkin is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.