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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Gunmen jump man on way to peace meeting

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A man seek­ing to make peace in an on­go­ing feud was killed in San­ta Cruz yes­ter­day as the mur­der toll rose to 102 peo­ple for the year.The lat­est vic­tim to die by the gun was 29-year-old Jef­fon "Cash" Jor­dan, whose two at­tack­ers fired at him 13 times as he made his way to what was sup­posed to have been a peace meet­ing.Ac­cord­ing to rel­a­tives, Jor­dan, a fa­ther of three – two girls and one boy, the el­dest five and youngest two months – went to Up­per Bass Street, San­ta Cruz, around 8 am yes­ter­day to try to re­solve an is­sue he had with men from the area last week.Jor­dan's sis­ter told the T&T Guardian her broth­er was tele­phoned by men he had had an al­ter­ca­tion with last week. The men told him they want­ed to bury the hatch­et.But po­lice said around 8.30 am as he made his way to the meet­ing, two masked men ap­proached Jor­dan and opened fire on him, killing him in­stant­ly.At the scene yes­ter­day, po­lice said Jor­dan was known to them, while res­i­dents were heard say­ing he was of­ten seen bran­dish­ing his il­le­gal firearm for all to see and would "ter­rorise peo­ple." An uniden­ti­fied man stood near the po­lice cau­tion tape speak­ing to Jor­dan's life­less body and say­ing that he "looked for it."At his Co­coa Road, Up­per San­ta Cruz, home, Jor­dan's moth­er of­fered no com­ment to the me­dia as fam­i­ly mem­bers be­gan gath­er­ing to lend some sup­port.

Shift in pat­tern

In a tele­phone in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Crime) Glen Hack­ett ex­pressed con­cerned about the in­creas­ing mur­ders toll, not­ing it start­ed off on the heels of "in­or­di­nate mur­ders" at the end of 2013.He said the mur­ders were at one point con­cen­trat­ed to two di­vi­sions, Port-of-Spain and North­ern, but there was a shift in this pat­tern and mur­ders were now be­ing record­ed in di­vi­sions out­side of the "tra­di­tion­al ar­eas.""We have ef­fec­tive­ly con­trolled the mur­der rate in four ar­eas be­cause of the in­ter­dic­tion re­sult of road checks and road­blocks. We have re­cov­ered so far over 1,000 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and 125 firearms," Hack­ett said.He added that the po­lice have in­ten­si­fied their ef­forts with a view to curb­ing the trend, how­ev­er, as they were mind­ful of the trau­ma that mur­ders have on the vic­tims' rel­a­tives. He said they were us­ing all their re­sources to make the coun­try safer.

Bloody week­end

Jor­dan's killing took the week­end toll to six. Around 2.30 pm on Sat­ur­day, An­cil Greene, 25, of Up­per Sixth Av­enue, Barataria, was killed at his home.Po­lice said two masked, armed men stormed in­to Greene's home and en­quired about his where­abouts.Po­lice said one of the as­sailants placed a gun to the head of Greene's fa­ther and or­dered him to call his son. When Greene ar­rived some 20 min­utes lat­er, the gun­men shot him in front his par­ents.About three hours lat­er, Sean Nurse, 34, of Pt Pleas­ant Park, Laven­tille, was shot dead while lim­ing with a group of friends.Po­lice said around 5.30 pm, Emanuel McKen­zie, 17, of Up­per Laven­tille Road, Laven­tille, and Akim Phillips, 16, of Mul­rain Trace, Laven­tille, were with Nurse near the Laven­tille Health Cen­tre, Laven­tille Road, when a ve­hi­cle ap­proached.

The oc­cu­pants opened fire on the group be­fore es­cap­ing. Nurse was shot sev­er­al times in the chest and was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.Some­time lat­er, po­lice said Stephen Man­nette, 52, of Des­pers Dri­ve, off Laven­tille Road, Laven­tille, was stand­ing in the road­way near his home when res­i­dents of the area heard sev­er­al gun­shots. When they checked they found Man­nette in a pool of blood.On Sun­day around 3.30 am, po­lice said De­vanand Bho­lai, 40, was at his Biche Vil­lage home with his fam­i­ly, when they were awak­ened by loud nois­es from out­side.Two armed men then forced their way in­side and or­dered every­one in­to the liv­ing room, where they robbed them. As the men were leav­ing, how­ev­er, one of them shot Bho­lai in his up­per body and head in front of his rel­a­tives, killing him in­stant­ly.And around 6.30 pm, res­i­dents of Poin­set­tia Dri­ve, Mor­vant, heard sev­er­al gun­shots. When they checked they found Seco Hope, 30, ly­ing on the road­way. He was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ence Com­plex, Mt Hope.


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