A LATE-NIGHT attack on a Penal family has left a man not only nursing a gunshot wound, but also a broken heart, after the intruders also shot and killed his son on Monday. In their haste to escape, the intruders drove over the man's son as he lay on the ground bleeding from gunshot wounds.

When Newsday showed up at the crime scene in Batchyia Trace, hours after the incident, Sheldon Harripersad was sitting on two concrete blocks which were perched on top of two old tyres in the garage. As he spoke on his cellphone, Harripersad began weeping, telling the caller he had lost his son and had no money for his funeral.

Harripersad showed Newsday his bandaged left hand saying he had just returned from the hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound.