A ban­dit was killed by po­lice dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers yes­ter­day morn­ing, and three of his ac­com­plices were ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a home in­va­sion.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 3.10am, a 54-year-old busi­ness­man and his 32-year-old broth­er were on their way to their East­ern Main Road, Barataria home when they were am­bushed.

The ban­dits forced the broth­ers in­to their home, beat­ing them and de­mand­ing cash and valu­ables. The in­trud­ers robbed the broth­ers and four oth­ers who were at home, tak­ing a cell­phone and $2,500 cash from one of the broth­ers and a cell­phone from an­oth­er.

The men al­so robbed those at home, in­clud­ing an 81-year-old man of cell­phones, a Sony PlaySta­tion with con­trollers, and oth­er valu­ables.

The men then fled through a win­dow.

Of­fi­cers of the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion, led by Cor­po­rals An­drews and Forbes, with Con­sta­bles Bra­zlon, Mc Knight, Tay­lor, and Kissoon, re­spond­ed to the re­port and saw a group of men run­ning in­to a near­by drain.

The of­fi­cers lat­er trained their guns on a man­hole ex­it along Sec­ond Street West, Barataria, for any­one try­ing to leave through there around 3.35 am.

A 25-year-old man from Pro­duc­tion Ave, Sea Lots, was held as he came out of the man­hole. An­oth­er man, who po­lice said came out of the man­hole with a loaded Smith and Wes­son gun, was shot by two po­lice of­fi­cers and tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, where he was de­clared dead at around 4.06 am.

The de­ceased has on­ly been iden­ti­fied as "An­to­nio" of Sev­enth Av­enue, Mal­ick.

Po­lice al­so ar­rest­ed a 23-year-old man and an 18-year-old, both from Sev­enth Av­enue, Barataria, and a 23-year-old from Nel­son Street, Port-of-Spain, with some of the stolen items. - Jensen La Vende