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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Hospital worker killed by gunman wearing only underwear

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Ralph Banwarie
101 days ago
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Crime Scene Investigators at the murder of Dwight Badal 41, an employee of the Ministry of Health on Graham Trace, Foster Road, Sangre Grande on Thursday night.

Crime Scene Investigators at the murder of Dwight Badal 41, an employee of the Ministry of Health on Graham Trace, Foster Road, Sangre Grande on Thursday night.

RALPH BANWARIE

Homi­cide of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the sec­ond mur­der in San­gre Grande with­in two days.

Po­lice said Dwight “Pat” Badal, 41, a Min­istry of Health em­ploy­ee, was gunned down on Thurs­day night.

Badal, of Fos­ter Road, San­gre Grande, worked at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Of­fi­cers said Badal was play­ing bas­ket­ball with friends at a near­by recre­ation ground, when he left and went to Ex­press House Mi­ni Mart to pur­chase a bot­tle of wa­ter. As he was about to en­ter the mi­ni-mart, a man dressed on­ly in his un­der­wear, with a jer­sey cov­er­ing his face, came out of a car and opened fire on him. Badal died on the spot.

Badal’s moth­er, Joanne Sylvester, said she lives three hous­es away from where her son was killed. She said when she heard he was shot, she ran to the scene to find him al­ready dead.

On Car­ni­val Tues­day night, na­tion­al youth box­er Prince Charles, 18, was stabbed to death by a man in San­gre Grande dur­ing Last Lap cel­e­bra­tions.

The 57-year-old sus­pect was ar­rest­ed.

—Ralph Ban­warie


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