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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Armed officers anger mourners At funeral of man shot by cops

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The pres­ence of armed po­lice of­fi­cers at the fu­ner­al ser­vice for Naim Dean, who was shot dead by po­lice last Fri­day, an­gered those who came to mourn his pass­ing. At the end of the ser­vice and fi­nal view­ing of the body, friends of dead man were seen cry­ing and curs­ing the of­fi­cers.The of­fi­cers told the T&T Guardian they were there to lend sup­port to their col­league, who is the step­fa­ther of Dean.Mourn­ers were heard mut­ter­ing that it was in­sen­si­tive for the of­fi­cers to be there bear­ing their guns. Two of the four of­fi­cers had ma­chine guns strapped around their necks as they stood out­side the St Pe­ter's RC Church, Con­stab­u­lary Street, Care­nage.

Twen­ty-one year old Naim Dean was yes­ter­day re­mem­bered as a lover of foot­ball who be­came with­drawn af­ter his fa­ther passed when he was a teen.Dur­ing her eu­lo­gy Dean's grand­moth­er, Jane Si­mon, with whom he lived, told the con­gre­ga­tion her grand­son was nev­er the type to like par­ties and go­ing out but was most­ly at home. She added that Dean had few friends and dreamt of play­ing foot­ball for the Mu­cu­rapo Se­nior Com­pre­hen­sive but those dreams were crushed when his fa­ther Ray Si­mon died of a heart at­tack.Si­mon said her son and grand­son both died on a Fri­day and both rough­ly at the same time. "He sel­dom smiled but when he did he would light up La Hor­quette," she said.

Be­fore the fu­ner­al ser­vice be­gan some of his Dean's friends, all wear­ing sun­glass­es and white T-shirts with an im­age of his face print­ed on it, stood be­hind trees as they cried. By the end of the ser­vice they could no longer hide their tears and open­ly cried.Dur­ing his homi­ly Mon­sign­or Cuth­bert Alexan­der called on those gath­ered to draw strength from Je­sus Christ, par­tic­u­lar­ly as this was Holy Week. Dur­ing the ser­vice Dean's girl­friend's moth­er, Su­san Hazeth, sang an orig­i­nal song, en­ti­tled "Miss­ing You".Dean was shot once in the back at La Hor­quette Road, Glen­coe, by a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cer at­tached to the Rapid Re­sponse Unit.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports around 8 pm on April 11, the of­fi­cers stopped a van that Dean was a pas­sen­ger in and be­gan search­ing him.The of­fi­cer at­tempt­ed to search his groin area when Dean slapped away his hand and ran. The of­fi­cer chased him and a scuf­fle en­sued. Dur­ing the scuf­fle Dean re­port­ed­ly stabbed him and the of­fi­cer shot him once in the chest.Dean's rel­a­tives said Dean was shot in cold blood while run­ning away from the of­fi­cer. They ac­cept­ed that he was searched and ran away af­ter slap­ping away the of­fi­cer's hand from his groin area.Rel­a­tives said the of­fi­cer fired a sin­gle gun­shot as he ran which pierced his lungs.


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