Jensen La Vende

Min­utes af­ter ac­cess­ing $30,000 bail on a charge of as­sault­ing his neigh­bour, 27-year-old Ravin­dra Be­har­ry was shot as he left the Fred­er­ick Street, Port-of-Spain prison yes­ter­day.Be­har­ry, of Pat­na Vil­lage, Diego Mar­tin, was shot around 12.45 pm af­ter step­ping out on­to the pave­ment. He had been in­car­cer­at­ed on an as­sault charge, po­lice said.A gun­man re­port­ed­ly ap­proached Be­har­ry as he was about to get in­to his fa­ther Sookram Be­har­ry's car and opened fire on him. He was shot in the neck and legs.

Be­har­ry was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he re­mained ward­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion up to last night.In an un­re­lat­ed shoot­ing, 29-year-old Silas Jack­son was shot once in the hip while at Lin­da's Bak­ery on the West­ern Main Road, Glen­coe, yes­ter­day.Po­lice said Jack­son was at the car park around 10.15 am in his Nis­san Navar­ra when a gun­man got out of a Hyundai Tuc­son and opened fire on him.Po­lice be­lieve Jack­son's shoot­ing was linked to the death of 18-year-old Mar­cio Delpeche.

Delpeche and 19-year-old Shakille Hold­er were lim­ing along Rod­ney Street, Point Cumana, Care­nage, on No­vem­ber 29 when a heav­i­ly-tint­ed car pulled up. A gun­man got out the car and be­gan shoot­ing at the men, who ran off.Hold­er, who lives on Rod­ney Street, was shot in the chest, while Delpeche, of Schuller Street, Point Cumana, was chased by the gun­man and shot in the head and chest.

In Feb­ru­ary 2005, God­frey """ Hen­ry was shot dead mo­ments af­ter leav­ing the Fred­er­ick Street prison. He had gone to the jail to vis­it an in­mate. Car­los Cam­po was lat­er charged for Hen­ry's mur­der but Cam­po was found not guilty at his tri­al in 2011.Cam­po claimed it was Hen­ry who at­tacked him and in self de­fence he took away Hen­ry's gun and fired at him.