Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a third at­tempt on the life of Aaron Grap­pie—one of the men once charged in the 2005 kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Sam­daye Ram­per­sad—af­ter he was shot in New Grant, Princes Town, on Fri­day.

The lat­est at­tack marks the third time in un­der two years that Grap­pie has been tar­get­ed by gun­men, rais­ing con­cerns among in­ves­ti­ga­tors about a pos­si­ble pat­tern linked to one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most no­to­ri­ous kid­nap­ping cas­es. His con­di­tion has not yet been of­fi­cial­ly dis­closed.

Grap­pie, of Farm­ers Trace, first came to na­tion­al at­ten­tion as one of sev­er­al men ac­cused in the 2005 ab­duc­tion and killing of Ram­per­sad, a San Juan busi­ness­woman who was kid­napped out­side her store by masked gun­men.