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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Cops kill three in Morvant shootout

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1854 days ago
20200628

Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant

Three sus­pects, who po­lice were told had weapons with them in a ve­hi­cle, were shot dead dur­ing an al­leged po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Mor­vant on Sat­urday.

One of the men has been iden­ti­fied as Joel Ja­cob but the two oth­er sus­pects were yet to be pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied up to last night.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 2.15 pm a par­ty of of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing Sgt Solomon, Cpls Phillips, Bu­dri, PCs Billingy, Weekes, Fur­longe, St Cyr, Bap­tiste, Cum­mings and Mo­hammed, to­geth­er with Guard and Emer­gency Branch mem­bers were head­ing east along Ju­man Dri­ve at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, Mor­vant, in search of the men af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion that men were seen in a brown mo­tor­car.

On reach­ing near the Au­to Gu­ru build­ing, the of­fi­cers saw the ve­hi­cle pro­ceed­ing west along the road. The of­fi­cers ma­noeu­vred their ve­hi­cle to force the sus­pects’ car to stop. The of­fi­cers then got out their ve­hi­cle and ap­proached the sus­pects’ ve­hi­cle, which had the dri­ver, a front pas­sen­ger and an­oth­er in the pas­sen­ger seat. Po­lice said on mov­ing clos­er to the ve­hi­cle, the man in the back seat got out, looked at the ap­proach­ing of­fi­cers, quick­ly got back in­to the ve­hi­cle, reached for a firearm and opened fire on them. The of­fi­cers re­turned fire, hit­ting all three sus­pects in the car.

Po­lice sub­se­quent­ly took the three wound­ed sus­pects to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they lat­er suc­cumbed to their in­juries. The of­fi­cers re­cov­ered and seized a black beretta pis­tol with a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the back seat of the car.

The scene was vis­it­ed by a par­ty of of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing In­sp Morales, In­sp Alex­is from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch, of­fi­cers from the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion and Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit of­fi­cers.

The car was wrecked and tak­en for fur­ther foren­sic analy­sis. 

The shoot­ing came hours af­ter po­lice of­fi­cer Allen Mose­ley was shot and killed in the area.

How­ev­er, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith last night de­nied so­cial me­dia re­ports that claimed the sus­pects were linked to the of­fi­cer’s mur­der. Grif­fith said the shoot­ing oc­curred dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise and had “noth­ing to ver­i­fy that it is be­ing linked to the of­fi­cer’s killing.” He, how­ev­er, not­ed that the killing of the sus­pects would not come as a cel­e­bra­tion, as they have fam­i­lies as well, but not­ed that once his of­fi­cers come un­der fire they will be left with no oth­er choice but to use equal force.

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