A 36-year-old man is re­cov­er­ing in hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing shot out­side his home in Bethel, To­ba­go, around mid­night on Mon­day.

Po­lice said the man had just ar­rived at his Rise­land home and was speak­ing with a friend when they saw some­one in a dark-coloured hood­ie ap­proach­ing from the back of the house.

The sus­pect point­ed a gun at them and fired sev­er­al shots. The vic­tim said he felt burn­ing sen­sa­tions in his left leg and up­per right chest be­fore he and his friend ran off in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions. Neigh­bours lat­er helped him, and an am­bu­lance took him to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.