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A 35-year-old sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al crimes was shot by po­lice dur­ing his ar­rest in Point Fortin on Wednes­day.

Po­lice said that at about 5.30 a.m., of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Unit went to For­tune Road, Egypt Vil­lage, Point Fortin, af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion that the sus­pect was at a house in the area.

On see­ing the of­fi­cers, the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly jumped through a win­dow and point­ed an ob­ject re­sem­bling a gun at them. One of­fi­cer fired two shots, caus­ing the sus­pect to fall to the ground. He lat­er got up and ran in­to near­by bush­es.