WPC Quian­na Ma­habir’s con­di­tion has con­tin­ued to steadi­ly im­prove and she is now speak­ing.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer said yes­ter­day that the 30-year-old had been tak­en off the ven­ti­la­tor on Thurs­day and had been breath­ing on her own.

“She is now rec­og­niz­ing peo­ple and talk­ing.”

Ma­habir con­tin­ues to be sur­round­ed by im­me­di­ate fam­i­ly mem­bers who have main­tained a steady di­et of prayers and pos­i­tive en­er­gy at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope.

Ma­habir, who is as­signed to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Band as a drum­mer, was shot sev­er­al times dur­ing a sus­pect­ed car­jack­ing at her home at Hy­draulic Road, Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, around 1.35 am on Oc­to­ber 22.

She had been part of an all-fe­male con­tin­gent rep­re­sent­ing the TTPS Band, that re­turned to the coun­try on Mon­day night fol­low­ing a 12-day mu­sic tour of the Ba­hamas and New Jer­sey.

Se­nior of­fi­cials in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion pro­vid­ed an up­date on the in­ves­ti­ga­tion on Thurs­day, as they re­vealed that sev­er­al per­sons of in­ter­est had been ques­tioned so far in re­la­tion to rob­beries of oth­er peo­ple.

They at­trib­uted the at­tack and sub­se­quent shoot­ing of Ma­habir, to that of a botched rob­bery - as no ev­i­dence col­lect­ed to date, seemed to sug­gest oth­er­wise.