Three men, including an expectant father, were killed in two separate incidents in Chaguanas and Laventille between Tuesday and Thursday night.
In the most recent killing, Lerone Guy, 43, and his neighbour Jeremiah Fraser, both of Wharton Street, Laventille, died after three gunmen in a grey Nissan Tiida opened fire on a birthday lime at Marcel Street, near the St Barb's Police Station, around 9.30 pm on Thursday. Members of the Inter-Agency Task Force responded to the incident.
Speaking with the media outside the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday Guy's father, Montgomery Guy, said his sons staged football tournaments to help keep the wayward children out of trouble. He said nothing could be done to stop the violence in the area other than starting with the toddlers and teaching them a different way of life. He said the young men were waring against each other for no identified reason, adding there is need for a large intervention, starting with the removal of guns.
The younger Guy has a 16 year-old son and was expecting his second child in two months. Relatives of Fraser did not want to be interviewed.
In the second killing, Roger De Verteuil, 41, was found by police on Thursday evening with stab wounds to his back and upper body at his Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas home. The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) police officer's body was decomposing when he was found and is believed to have been dead since Tuesday. He was also robbed of jewelery and appliances.
In another unrelated incident, a man identified only as "Pin Head" was shot his Building Three, St Francois Valley Road, Belmont home yesterday afternoon by two gunmen. Police said during the shooting a woman and her child were also shot and all three are warded at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Centre, Mt Hope.