The fam­i­ly of 15-year-old Malachi Glenn, one of the three sur­vivors of the po­lice-in­volved killing in Port-of-Spain which claimed the lives of three young men, is call­ing on the act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc Don­ald Ja­cob and Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty di­rec­tor David West to re­lease CCTV footage of the in­ci­dent.

The fam­i­ly in­struct­ed their at­tor­ney Om Lal­la to write the act­ing Com­mis­sion­er re­quest­ing the CCTV video.

Ear­li­er this week, Ja­cob told mem­bers of the me­dia that the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors had CCTV footage of the in­ci­dent.

The let­ter from at­tor­ney Lal­la stat­ed that the se­ri­ous­ness of this mat­ter re­quires that Ja­cob main­tain and pre­serve it, as it will be re­quired in le­gal pro­ceed­ings.

The let­ter asked for all CCTV footage from T&T Po­lice Ser­vice and Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty cam­eras, as well as from any sur­round­ing busi­ness­es.

The in­ci­dent, which re­port­ed­ly be­gan as a po­lice chase from Diego Mar­tin, end­ed along In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain, close to Re­pub­lic Bank and oth­er com­mer­cial en­ti­ties.

In ad­di­tion, the let­ter from Lal­la al­so re­quest­ed that all body cam­era record­ings, bal­lis­tic re­ports of the of­fi­cers who used am­mu­ni­tion up­on the client (Malachi Glenn), the num­ber of rounds of am­mu­ni­tion used, foren­sic re­ports of the de­ceased, in­clu­sive of post-mortem find­ings, ev­i­dence of the di­rec­tions of shots fired in­to the ve­hi­cle, in­clu­sive of any crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­port, as well as sta­tion di­ary re­ports of the in­ci­dent and med­ical re­ports of all the oc­cu­pants of the ve­hi­cle.

Lal­la stat­ed that the re­cent state­ments of the TTPS that Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Bran­don John has been ap­point­ed as a lead in­ves­ti­ga­tor is wel­comed but re­quest­ed that “that an un­der­tak­ing be giv­en that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is com­plet­ed prompt­ly giv­en the sever­i­ty of this mat­ter.”

The let­ter al­so made a re­quest that the in­tegri­ty of all ev­i­dence ob­tained in this mat­ter be pre­served with the high­est se­cu­ri­ty.

Lal­la added that the “anx­i­ety of the na­tion and the pres­sure on the TTPS in no way shirks its re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to act ac­cord­ing to its le­gal man­date to pro­tect and serve, nor is the cur­rent lev­el of crime an ex­cuse for law­less­ness or il­le­gal­i­ty by those who are legal­ly em­pow­ered in law en­force­ment.”

Fif­teen-year-old Malachi was shot in his arm dur­ing the in­ci­dent in the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day morn­ing. He was treat­ed at hos­pi­tal and dis­charged days lat­er.

Af­ter he re­turned home, he at­tend­ed sev­er­al vig­ils held for his three friends—Isa­iah Roberts, Leonar­do Williams and Fa­bi­en Richards—who were killed dur­ing the en­counter with po­lice.

The two oth­er sur­vivors were re­leased from po­lice cus­tody with no charges.

On Thurs­day, one of the oth­er sur­vivors of the shoot­ing, iden­ti­fied on­ly as Je­re­mi­ah, de­nied dur­ing an in­ter­view that there was a firearm in their ve­hi­cle or in any­one’s pos­ses­sion.

“No­body had pos­ses­sion of no firearm. It had, was a flip-knife for self-de­fence,” he said.

He al­so said CCTV footage of the in­ci­dent will cor­rob­o­rate the group’s ver­sion of events. In a press re­lease this week, the TTPS main­tained of­fi­cers were shot at by the men in the car and that of­fi­cers al­so re­cov­ered a firearm from the ve­hi­cle.