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\u201cI can confirm there was a shooting incident in Cricket Street, but nobody was shot,” he said. “My members are following up on information received on the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the same chat group residents claimed shots had been fired outside Princeton High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sgt Wesley Twigg, media liaison officer at the police’s provincial office, said this was also false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLentegeur police attended to a complaint of a shooting at a school in Mitchell\u2019s Plain,” he said, “but no shooting incident occurred in or around the school.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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