Local News

A shooting incident in San Pedro town has left a would-be robber injured.  The victim has been identified as twenty four year old Derrick Wellington Rivers, a resident of the San Juan area of San Pedro town.  According to police reports, Rivers ran into the police station around eleven thirty last night, with two gunshot wounds, one to the forehead and the other to the right arm.  Police say their initial investigation reveals that Rivers and two other men from San Pedro were plotting to rob a business place, but when Rivers got cold feet and changed his mind, one of his co-conspirators tuned the gun on him.  Rivers have been able to identity to police the man who shot him.  Rivers was taken to the San Pedro Poly Clinic and later transferred to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he is listed in a stable condition. Police have detained the man alleged to have shot Rivers.