Two injured in clash with cop

FRAGMENTS from two bullets believed to have come from a police officer’s gun struck a man and a woman in Diego Martin early yesterday morning, police sources said. One of the injured Ava Alexander, 39, of Duval Avenue, Diego Martin, was treated at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital and discharged. She was treated for injuries to her right ear, her daughter, Anastacia told Sunday Newsday.  “She is not hearing too good and is in lots of pain.”

The other victim, Derwin Garvin Phillip, also of Diego Martin, was up to late evening was warded at the city hospital nursing injuries to his right knee. Reports are that around 8am opposite Duval Avenue, the officer described as an “undercover cop” went to pick up a man to do some work at the officer’s home. The man he went to get had been in an argument with another man and sometime after the officer arrived and shots were heard resulting in injuries to Alexander and Phillip.