Camille Clarke

For the sec­ond time in just over a year, a Care­nage fam­i­ly is deal­ing with the mur­der of one of their sons. Shaquille LaVende, 20, of L'Anse Mi­tan, who shot dead on yes­ter­day, just 13 months af­ter his broth­er, Shas­tri, was killed in sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances.

Po­lice said LaVende was shot sev­er­al times about the body.The in­ci­dent oc­curred at around 11.35 am, just af­ter LaVende dropped off a woman on the street. Res­i­dents who heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions im­me­di­ate­ly called the po­lice.

The body was viewed by a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who or­dered its re­moval to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre for an au­top­sy to­day.

T&T Guardian re­porter Jensen LaVende, the vic­tim's cousin, said he was shocked to see pho­tos of the mur­der scene on so­cial me­dia.

"Hav­ing seen so many vic­tims of mur­der on so­cial me­dia and to see him was shock­ing. I could un­der­stand the trau­ma peo­ple go through," he said.

"That I knew him, to find out like this was a lit­tle hard. I don't know how I am feel­ing sad, I re­gret not spend­ing time. His par­ents are still get­ting over the death of his broth­er," he said.

In Sep­tem­ber last year, the bul­let-rid­dled body of LaVende's broth­er, Shas­tri, was found in a ve­hi­cle at En­ter­prise Street, in En­ter­prise.Homi­cide of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the lat­est mur­der.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, just as po­lice iden­ti­fied the body of a man found float­ing in the Gulf of Paria, an­oth­er corpse washed ashore in Granville yes­ter­day.The first body is that of Wasim Nab­bie 21, a pro­duce ven­dor of La Ro­maine.

The oth­er corpse washed ashore at on Point Co­co Beach, Granville, short­ly af­ter 3 pm and up to late yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors were still at the scene up to late yes­ter­day.

Nab­bie and an­oth­er man were re­port­ed miss­ing to the St Joseph po­lice last Wednes­day. Their ve­hi­cle was found aban­doned at King's Wharf San Fer­nan­do.

Nab­bie's body was first spot­ted by the crew of the wa­ter taxi HSC Tri­ni Flash in the an­chor­age area off the Port of Pointe-a-Pierre around 4 pm on Fri­day.

Coast guard and air guard search teams were sent to the area but the body was not found. Around 10.14 am Sat­ur­day, Petrotrin of­fi­cials spot­ted the body near a plat­form in Trin­mar Brighton Ma­rine Fields, off La Brea at at around 2.05 pm, coast guard per­son­nel re­trieved the body sev­er­al miles off the Trin­mar Jet­ty in Point Fortin. It was hand­ed over to Sgt Dar­ryl Corey of the Re­gion III Homi­cide Bu­reau.

The par­tial­ly de­com­posed body was clad in a pair of brown box­er shorts and was hog tied with a cloth wrapped around the head and held to­geth­er by duct tape. In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve the vic­tim was mur­dered.