CRIME WRAP

Here's a wrap of some of the crime events citizens faced over the past 24 hours.

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00:00Our crime rap takes us to Northeastern Settlement off Ojo Road in Sangre Grandi, where a two-year-old

00:06child was injured when a 23-year-old woman was attacked while holding the toddler.

00:11It was at about 9am on Thursday that the victim was at her mother's workplace conducting

00:15sales.

00:16While seated outside the establishment with her daughter on her lap, she was confronted

00:19by two women she knew.

00:21The women began hitting her and her daughter.

00:23A 54-year-old woman who was nearby attempted to intervene, but she was also beaten.

00:28The purse containing $4,500 in cash was stolen and a 23-year-old cellular phone was smashed.

00:35Our next stop is in Quarry Road in San Juan where gunmen opened fire on a Mercedes Benz

00:39at about 2.26am on Thursday.

00:41A 37-year-old bar manager told police that he was driving north along the roadway when

00:45he slowed to maneuver a speed bump in the vicinity of George's Terrace.

00:50He observed three men standing on the road holding firearms.

00:53Without warning, the suspects opened fire on the vehicle.

00:56The victim, fearing his life, sped away from the scene uninjured.

01:00We head to Diggo Martin where a 44-year-old PH driver was plying his Mazda wagon and stopped

01:05to pick up three men on the western main road near Massey Stores in Glencoe.

01:10They asked to be taken to La Puerta.

01:12Upon reaching the vicinity of the La Puerta Government Primary School, one of the men

01:15asked to be let out and the driver stopped the car.

01:18However, one of the individuals seated behind the driver placed his arms around the man's

01:23neck and began choking him.

01:25He heard the front passenger saying, shoot him, shoot him.

01:28The suspects did not shoot, however, they beat the victim about the head and body.

01:32He ran out of the car and fled the scene on foot, leaving behind his cellular phone in

01:36the vehicle.

01:37The suspects took the man's car and drove off.

01:40In Freeport, a 51-year-old businessman told police that his licensed firearm, which was

01:45outfitted with magazines that contained 40 rounds of 9mm ammunition, was stolen from

01:50his home.

01:51The man said he last saw the gun on November 26th in a safe located in his house.

01:55However, on Thursday morning, he observed that the weapon was missing.

01:59The man said he had not left the home for the past two days and that the only other

02:03person who was in the home at the time was a female Venezuelan acquaintance from Piarco.