Police are searching for a suspect involved in a shooting incident that left a 54-year-old woman nursing a gunshot wound to her leg.
The incident took place around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, 29 June, outside the Now and Later Supermarket.
It was reported that the woman was about to close her business place when she was accosted by an unknown male, who robbed her of an undisclosed amount of money and shot her in her left leg.
The suspect is described as approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall and dressed in a grey hoodie pulled over his head.
The victim was transported to the Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre, where she is being treated. Medical personnel have also confirmed that her injury is not life-threatening.
Anyone with information that may assist in identifying or locating the suspect is asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Department at 462-3913 or call the Crimestoppers anonymous tip line at 800-TIPS (8477).
The Police Administration is urging members of the public to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious activity immediately.
Ruth? Is that who they robbed and shot? Wow! This woman is such a nice woman. Know her ever since growing up struggling on Parliament Drive, Grays Farm! Mommy would send us in the shop and she would give us things to take back home along with what we went to buy.
When would they end this bs? Robbing people who work hard for a living! Why don’t they go and work hard for your living! The time you stay their plotting on robbing someone, that time could go into some hours at work!
Another robbery? When will this thing end. My condolences to the family.
With all these robberies business owners need to have some level of security for when they closing up cause people are becoming more and more desperate
Well well, we can now stop talking about Trinidad and Jamaica because we have looooong, pass them with these gun violence
We shouldn’t publish these stories of we are a tourist destination. It would make people believe we are the worse country where saftey is concerned.
Always something in Antigua