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Friday, July 11, 2025

Two more murders push toll to 226

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Two men, an avid foot­ball fan and a known crim­i­nal, are now dead af­ter be­ing shot near their homes yes­ter­day in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents, push­ing the toll to 226 for the year.The mur­der toll for the same pe­ri­od last year was 195.In the first in­ci­dent, Ke­ston Red­head, a strong sup­port­er of the Nether­lands foot­ball team, was shot out­side his Mal­abar home, in a killing po­lice be­lieve was linked to his tes­ti­mo­ny in the mur­der of his grand­fa­ther El­borne Roberts.

Red­head, 26, of Koon Koon Street, Mal­abar, Ari­ma, died while be­ing treat­ed at the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty af­ter he was tak­en there by North­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice who re­spond­ed to the trou­ble call.Po­lice said they re­ceived a call around 5.40 am and when they ar­rived they found Red­head bleed­ing at the side of the road.In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Red­head was due to tes­ti­fy on Ju­ly 18 against two men charged with the mur­der of Roberts, who was shot dead dur­ing a botched rob­bery in 2010.

Roberts was killed af­ter strug­gling with one of the two men who en­tered his Mal­abar Road home around 3.30 am. Af­ter mur­der­ing the fa­ther of eight, his killers es­caped with on­ly $300 and two cell­phones, rel­a­tives said.In the sec­ond case, Jodel "Rank" Charles was killed out­side Agard Dis­count Su­per­mar­ket, Pash­ley Street, Laven­tille, around 1.10 pm.

His rel­a­tives, two women and a man, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, spoke at the scene of the mur­der, say­ing Charles was re­leased from prison last No­vem­ber 16. They said he liked "fame" and would fol­low bad com­pa­ny but al­though he was in­volved in il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ty they were still heart­bro­ken by his mur­der.

Killing spot

On June 20 around 10.20 am, Ke­ston Bar­row, 24, and Aton Mc Con­nie, 22, both of Buller Trace, Laven­tille, al­so were shot dead out­side Agard's Dis­count Su­per­mar­ket af­ter a red Mit­subishi Lancer with two oc­cu­pants pulled along­side them.The men were tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they both died dur­ing emer­gency treat­ment.


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