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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Ex-cop dies days after police beating

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Rel­a­tives of re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer An­der­son Ken­neth Alexan­der, 59, who died 11 days af­ter he was al­leged­ly beat­en by the po­lice, are con­fused that an au­top­sy could not de­ter­mine his cause of death.Alexan­der, of San­ta Cruz, was al­leged­ly beat­en by po­lice of­fi­cers on June 10. He died on June 21 at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences (EWM­SC) Com­plex in Mt Hope.How­ev­er, the cause of death is yet to be de­ter­mined, as an au­top­sy done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James last week was in­con­clu­sive.

A close rel­a­tive told the T&T Guardian Alexan­der's fam­i­ly is still in shock.The rel­a­tive said Alexan­der had just left his home and stopped to talk to neigh­bours when the in­ci­dent oc­curred."A po­lice ve­hi­cle pulled up be­hind him and the of­fi­cers be­gan shout­ing at him and ges­tic­u­lat­ing. As a re­tiree from the ser­vice, he thought the of­fi­cers had known him and was hail­ing out to him, on­ly lat­er re­al­is­ing that this wasn't the case.

"One of the of­fi­cers alight­ed the ve­hi­cle and ap­proached his ve­hi­cle, pulling out the key to his en­gine. An­oth­er of­fi­cer ap­proached and there was an ex­change of words. A short ba­ton was hand­ed to the first of­fi­cer, who dealt An­der­son sev­er­al se­vere blows to the head, neck, right fore­arm and right knee," the rel­a­tive said.Alexan­der was tak­en to the San­ta Cruz Po­lice Sta­tion but was lat­er re­leased.

Two days lat­er, he be­gan com­plain­ing of ex­treme weak­ness and pains. He was tak­en to a pri­vate doc­tor but his con­di­tion wors­ened.On June 16, Alexan­der was ad­mit­ted to the EWM­SC where he re­mained ward­ed un­til he died.


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