NASSAU-A police officer shot and wounded an armed robbery suspect after he allegedly pointed an object at him.
The shooting took place shortly after midnight Saturday at East Avenue.
Police spokesman ASP Audley Peters said a robbery victim stopped officers at they patrolled Collins Avenue and Sixth Terrace.
The man told the officers that he’d been robbed at gunpoint by group of men who ran towards East Avenue.
Officers went to the area and saw a group of men in the streets. They ran as the police approached. During the pursuit, one of the men “brandished and object which was believed to be a firearm,” ASP Peters said.
Aware of an “imminent threat towards his life” the officer shot at the men, hitting one of them. The injured suspect is in stable condition in hospital. The other suspects evaded police, ASP Peters said.
Police did not say they recovered a firearm. Neither did they reveal what the man allegedly pointed at the officers.
