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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Gene Samuel shoots bandit in Beetham robbery

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For­mer Na­tion­al Cy­clist Gene "Geron­i­mo" Samuel was robbed while chang­ing a flat tyre to his ve­hi­cle on the Beetham High­way on Wednes­day night.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that as the two sus­pects were run­ning away with the loot–one of them aimed a gun to­wards Samuel forc­ing him to draw his firearm and open fire.

Po­lice said one of the sus­pects was shot and wound­ed and be­lieved to have made his way to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for med­ical treat­ment.

The sus­pect was ward­ed un­der heavy po­lice guard pend­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at 8 pm, Samuel, who was dri­ving a mul­ti-coloured Toy­ota wag­on was pro­ceed­ing west along the high­way when he got a flat tyre.

Whilst there he was ap­proached by two men.

Po­lice said one of the sus­pects point­ed a firearm at Samuel and re­lieved him of a gold chain and gold ring.

That sus­pect, while run­ning away from the scene, point­ed the firearm in Samuel's di­rec­tion forc­ing him to draw his pis­tol.

Po­lice said Samuel, who ex­pressed fear for his life, opened fire on the sus­pects. The men then ran north in­to the Beetham Gar­dens where Samuel ob­served one of the sus­pects limp­ing near a scrap yard.

In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers were lat­er no­ti­fied that a man from the Beetham Gar­dens came to the hos­pi­tal seek­ing treat­ment for gun­shot wounds.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, an­oth­er ban­dit was left hos­pi­talised af­ter his vic­tim knocked him down with his taxi on Tues­day night. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 11 pm, the ban­dit, pos­ing as a pas­sen­ger, stopped the taxi in San Juan to be tak­en to Port-of-Spain. On reach­ing in the vicin­i­ty of William H Scott along In­de­pen­dence Square the pas­sen­ger pulled out a gun and robbed the dri­ver of an un­spec­i­fied amount of mon­ey and ran out the ve­hi­cle.

The dri­ver turned south along Nel­son Street and while head­ing east on South Quay, he saw the man walk­ing and knocked him down.

Po­lice said as the ban­dit rolled around in agony, an­oth­er car passed and picked up a bag, be­lieved to con­tain the gun and cash the ban­dit had on him. The un­for­tu­nate cul­prit suf­fered no ma­jor in­juries save for a few cuts and bruis­es on the head and face was treat­ed at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and then dis­charged.

The man, who is in his ear­ly twen­ties from East Port-of-Spain is now at the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion await­ing to un­der­go iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades be­fore he is of­fi­cial­ly charged.

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Rhon­dor Dowlat&nb­sp;and Jensen La Vende


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