Jensen La Vende

Po­lice at­tached to the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion Op­er­a­tion Unit shot and killed a teenag­er dur­ing a shootout on Mon­day night.Nine­teen-year-old Je­re­my In­nis, of Quar­ry Street, Laven­tille, and Bath Street, East Dry Riv­er, was stand­ing with oth­er peo­ple at Gloster Lodge, Gon­za­les, when short­ly af­ter 9 pm they were told to stop.Po­lice say In­nis fired at them when they ap­proached. Po­lice re­turned fire and In­nis was shot. He was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Two of­fi­cers, WPC Viar­ru­el and Cpl Charles, were shot in the ex­change and had to be treat­ed for their in­juries, po­lice said. Viar­ru­el was shot in the arm and her col­league was shot in the chest but luck­i­ly his bul­let­proof vest pro­tect­ed him from se­ri­ous in­juries, po­lice said. The two of­fi­cers were dis­charged from hos­pi­tal.A 9mm pis­tol and 12 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion were found at the scene.

In­te­ri­or de­sign­er shot dead

Homi­cide of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the lat­est mur­der which oc­curred in Laven­tille yes­ter­day.Res­i­dents of Box­hill Trace heard sev­er­al gun­shots around 2.30 am but did not ven­ture out­side. About four hours lat­er, when res­i­dents were on their way to work they found 34-year-old Ny­ron Vin­cent, alias Frank, dead at the side of the road.Po­lice say he was not known to be in­volved in any il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ty and rel­a­tives told them he was an in­te­ri­or de­sign­er.

They said his killing may have been a case of be­ing in the wrong place at the wrong time.