A Coast Guard officer was forced to pull his firearm and shoot a man who attacked him for intervening in a parking dispute.
The petty officer was liming near a liquor mart at Range Road, Five Rivers, Arouca, around 1:15am Sunday when he saw two men engaged in a brawl over a parking spot.
The off-duty officer attempted to intervene to separate the feuding parties but one of the men attacked him.
The 43-year-old man pushed the officer to the ground and continued to attack him.
The officer managed to draw his licensed firearm and shot the man twice-once to his right arm and once to his hip.
The man was taken to the Arima District Hospital. He was treated and discharged.
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