Southern Division police are investigating a home invasion in Palmiste on Wednesday morning, which left one bandit nursing a gunshot wound following a shootout with one of the homeowners, who is a police sergeant.
The police officer was also injured in the exchange of gunfire.
Reports are at around 2.45 am, five men broke into the home at Block Four, Palmiste.
They hit a 73-year-old woman as well as a male relative, a police constable in his 20s.
Another male relative, who is a police sergeant, was alerted by the commotion and came face to face with the armed intruders, who claimed to be policemen.
One of the intruders shot at the sergeant, who returned fire, hitting one of the suspects, a 20-year-old man from Aranguez.
The suspect’s accomplices ran out of the house empty-handed, got into a black Aqua car and drove off.