In what residents and several sources have called a “drug war,” shots were fired in a house in New Extension, Micoud last Friday night. No one was injured.
Residents told St. Lucia News Online (SNO) that on Friday, some time after 11 p.m., two young men, reportedly non-nationals, fired two shots in a one-bedroom plywood house in the community.
Residents believe the house fired on, was not the intended target.
“They believe it was (name removed) house but it was the home of a neighbour,” a source said.
According to residents, a man, believed to be in his 40′s, was at home when the shots were fired.
He was reportedly seated on a chair when one shot penetrated his wooden building and landed in the glass window of another house. The other shot landed in a chair, which he usually occupied.
“Luckily he had not sat on it yet,” the resident said. Residents believe the gunmen are non-nationals and are linked to a resident in the ghetto of New Extension.
Information reaching SNO is that the police was seen at the home of a female in New Extension in what appeared to be a search.
Residents also told SNO that shots were fired at three brothers by a non-national over drugs, at about 1 a.m. on Friday.
“This happened … very close to my home, so close that the shoots echoed in my bedroom,” one resident said.
No one has been arrested.