A 49-year-old man is dead and a 40-year-old woman is recovering in hospital following a shooting at their Valencia home in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The deceased has been identified as Shaun Charles, 49, of LP 4 Emon Lane, Valencia. The injured woman is a 40-year-old of the same address.<\/p>\n
Officers of the Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) Eastern Division responded to a report of gunfire at the residence around 3:30 a.m. and found both victims inside suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the couple had been asleep in the home along with two children when they were awakened by explosions. Both were struck by gunfire.<\/p>\n
Police observed that Charles had sustained an apparent gunshot wound to the centre of his back, while the woman suffered a wound to her upper left back area. Several 9mm spent shell casings and bloodstains were also seen at the scene.<\/p>\n
The injured pair were transported by Valencia Criminal Investigations Department (CID) personnel to the Sangre Grande Hospital for urgent medical attention. Charles was later pronounced dead on arrival at 4:19 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman remains hospitalised in stable condition and is receiving treatment for her injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 49-year-old man is dead and a 40-year-old woman is recovering in hospital following a shooting at their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[273,5779,95],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-news","tag-newsextra","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}