6 shot in shooting spree

Four separate shooting incidents, between Fri-day and Saturday night in east Trinidad, have left six people nursing injuries.

In the first incident, around 9.45 p.m. Friday, 23-year-old Clint Collins, a Maloney resident, was ‘liming’ downstairs in Building 21 in Maloney when a gunman approached. Collins was shot three times in the chest and slumped to the ground. The shooter then ran off.

Collins was at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mount Hope in critical condition.

Almost 24 hours after that incident, around 9 p.m. Saturday, Jason Thomas, 28, was walking in Maloney Gardens, when he too was approached by a gunman.

Thomas, from Building 13, was shot twice, in his left arm and stomach, by the gunman. Thomas was in serious condition in hospital last night.

More than two hours after that incident and further east, Daniel Williams, 21, and Kerwyn Gay, 22, were walking in Malabar around 11.25 p.m. when a man approached on a bicycle.

Reports are that the man pulled out a gun and shot Williams, of Malabar, and Gay, of Bon Air Gardens, Arouca, then rode off.

Gay sustained a wound to his heel while Williams was shot in his armpit. Both were taken to the EWMSC and Gay was subsequently discharged. Williams was in serious condition last night.

Around the same time, two men were shot after using the RBTT automated teller machine (ATM) in the St. Augustine Shopping Plaza.

The still unidentified duo were both said to be listed in serious condition at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex last night.

Northern Division officers are continuing investigations into the four incidents. (Trinidad Express)