The Tribune

By DANA SMITH

Tribune Staff Reporter

dsmith@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are investigating a string of armed robberies that took place over the weekend as well as three shooting incidents – which left four people in hospital.

One woman was shot at her home, in the early hours of Saturday morning, after gunshots were fired into her house.

The victim was at her 
Hospital Lane residence around 3am when she was shot in her thigh and was taken to hospital where she is detained in stable condition.

Less than an hour later, shortly before 4am, a man and a woman had just arrived at their Montel Heights residence when two men armed with handguns fired shots at them.

The man was shot in his knee and the woman was shot in her left leg. They were both transferred to hospital where they are detained in stable condition.

The last incident took place later that afternoon in an apparent drive-by shooting.

The victim, a man, was walking on Derby Road in Yellow Elder Gardens shortly before 3pm when a green Honda approached him.

The occupants of the car fired several shots at him before escaping, police reports say.

The victim was shot in his right arm and was taken to hospital where he is detained in stable condition.

The first armed robbery occurred when a woman was robbed at gun-point while walking down Shirley Street on Friday afternoon.

According to police reports, a man armed with a handgun and in a black car approached her and robbed her of cash and a cell phone.

A little more than two hours later, another armed robbery took place.

A man was at Patton Street when a man armed with a handgun approached him and robbed him of his 2010 black Honda Accord.

The final robbery occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning when an armed man forced his way into a woman’s home and robbed her.

A woman was at her Boyd Road residence around 3am when a man, armed with a handgun, forcibly entered her home and robbed her of two computers before driving off in her 1997 Toyota Corsa.

Police are appealing to members of the public who may have any information regarding any of these incidents to contact police at 919 or at 328-TIPS (New Providence) or 300-8476 (Family Islands).

Police stress that all information will be kept strictly confidential.