Teenage Gunman Hunted After San Pedro Shooting

A heated argument outside a San Pedro grocery store has now turned into a police manhunt. Authorities are searching for an eighteen-year-old suspect accused of opening fire during the dispute on Thursday night. The victim survived and received medical treatment, but the shooter remains at large. Police say they are actively tracking his whereabouts as the investigation continues.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

“Police are seeking an eighteen-year-old male minor of San Pedro as a part of an investigation into a shooting incident which resulted in the injury of thirty-two-year-old of Winston Cayetano in San Pedro Town. What we know so far is that on Thursday seventh May, just before nine o’clock p.m. Cayetano went into a grocery store on the island and an argument ensued between him and the male person. Cayetano departed and returned shortly thereafter and that was when the male person produced a firearm and fired a shot which injured him the shoulder.”

 

Police have not yet named the suspect. We will continue to follow.

 

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