The Tribune

By KHRISNA VIRGIL

Tribune Staff Reporter

kvirgil@tribunemedia.net

AUTHORITIES are investigating two separate shooting incidents yesterday - one involving a man who was inside his vehicle eating lunch when he was accosted by a gunman.

According to reports, at around noon, the victim was inside his Ford Ranger truck on Yamacraw Beach, when a man armed with a gun entered the vehicle and ordered him to drive to the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) on Wulff Road, where he forced him to withdraw cash.

The gunman, police said, then ordered the victim to drive to an area in western New Providence where he shot the victim and forced him out of the truck. The armed man then escaped in the victim’s vehicle.

The victim was taken to the hospital where he is said to be in serious condition. Police later recovered the victim’s truck abandoned in an area at Carmichael Road.

Another incident occurred shortly after 12.30am when a man walking on Miami Street and Cordeaux Avenue was approached by another man with a handgun who shot him.

He was rushed to the hospital where police said he is in stable condition.

Investigations are continuing in both matters.