BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A suspected burglar is nursing a bullet wound in the JNF Hospital after he resisted arrest and was shot by police last night (Jan. 21) when found on the premises of a Greenlands resident.
Reports reaching SKNVibes indicate that 36-year-old Clive Grant of La Guerite was shot in his left leg and is warded at the hospital under police guard.
This media house learned that about 10:30 last night Grant allegedly broke into the New Pond Site home of Trevor ‘Jamster’ Woodley and stole two cellular phones and a handbag belonging to Woodley’s spouse.
However, while in the process of searching for more items, Woodley confronted him and he dropped the handbag and escaped with the cellular phones through the backdoor.
Woodley then informed the police of the incident and they immediately responded; however, the burglar had already disappeared from the area.
SKNVibes was told that the same suspect then made his way to another house in Taylor’s Range but he did not get to steal anything because the occupants were not asleep and were aware of his presence and intention.
Seemingly dissatisfied with the night’s illegal earnings, the same burglar headed for another house in Greenlands, but an alert neighbour notified the police of his presence in the yard.
Once again the police immediately responded and caught him armed with a knife. But during their attempt to arrest him, he resisted and was shot in the process.
A search of his person and the area where he was shot revealed that in addition to the knife, Grant had a bag in his possession that contained a number of house-breaking implements including a crowbar and wire cutter.
The police took him to the hospital, where he was treated and warded under guard.
A reliable source informed this media house that the description of the burglar which Woodley gave to the police matched that given by the Taylor’s Range resident. However, when Grant was caught in Greenlands, the shirt he was wearing was not the same one described by the two individuals. But during the body search, police noticed that he was wearing two shirts under the outer garment and one of them seemed to have been the same as that described by the first victim and the intended one.
Investigations into these incidents are ongoing.
