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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Bul­let-rid­dled body found in Ca­roni...

Murder victim fought for life

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Leon Samuel, whose bul­let-rid­dled body was found at the side of the road yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, fought for his life to the bit­ter end as he was found grasp­ing at blades of grass.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Samuel, 33, whose last ad­dress was at Balt­haz­ar Street, Tu­na­puna, was found around 1 pm by passers­by along the Ca­roni South Bank Road. Po­lice said Samuel was shot six times, four in the head and twice in the chest.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said they be­lieve Samuel was alive at the side of the road and may have strug­gled with his killer/s and in a des­per­ate at­tempt to save his life clung to a patch of grass.

Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian at her Tu­na­puna home, a fe­male rel­a­tive of Samuel said she had just re­turned to the coun­try and that his fa­ther was due to leave last night to at­tend a memo­r­i­al for his de­ceased moth­er.

The woman added that Samuel was an avid trav­eller who moved out of the home a few years ago.

Po­lice be­lieve the killing was not as a re­sult of rob­bery but due to some il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties that Samuel may have been in­volved in.

They added that they could not say what ex­act­ly it was but giv­en the num­ber of times he was shot and the fact that some valu­ables were found on him, Samuel was most like­ly to be in­volved in some­thing ne­far­i­ous that ul­ti­mate­ly led to his death.

In an­oth­er dis­cov­ery yes­ter­day, of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion were called to the scene of a ful­ly charred re­mains of a hu­man found in a pile of rub­bish off the Cau­ra Roy­al Road.

The body was so bad­ly burnt that on­ly the skull and parts of the per­son's rib cage were found.

Po­lice said they re­ceived a call around 10 am that the skele­tal re­mains had been found, re­port­ed­ly by vil­lagers.

When the T&T Guardian vis­it­ed the scene, the re­mains were nes­tled in some burn de­bris be­hind a moun­tain of dirt, off the road way with no hous­es for miles.

The en­trance to the site was al­so blocked by a large boul­der. Po­lice say on­ly DNA match and den­tal records will be able to con­firm the iden­ti­ty.


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