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A 44-year-old woman re­mains ward­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter she was shot while on her way home in Mara­bel­la on Thurs­day.

Pre­lim­i­nary po­lice in­quiries stat­ed around 6.20 pm, Jacque­line Joseph was re­turn­ing from Williams Food Cot­tage when a white ve­hi­cle, make and mod­el un­known, pulled up be­side her along Boodoos­ingh Dri­ve.

Sev­er­al gun­shots were fired, and the ve­hi­cle sped off in an un­known di­rec­tion. She col­lapsed in front a res­i­dent’s premis­es and was sub­se­quent­ly trans­port­ed by the po­lice to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.