Se­nior po­lice sources say Dr Vin Sein Chi­ang was at­tempt­ing to de­fend him­self when he was shot dead out­side his Waller­field home ear­ly this morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors prob­ing the mat­ter told Guardian Me­dia that short­ly af­ter 4 35 am, Dr Chi­ang, 75, had just dri­ven his car out of the yard of his home and closed the gate when he was con­front­ed by two men, one armed with a gun.

They say the doc­tor tried to de­fend him­self with a black knife he kept in his pos­ses­sion but dur­ing the con­fronta­tion, he was shot. His at­tack­ers then es­caped on foot.

Dr Chi­ang called out to his wife who was in­side the house and she ran out and found him bleed­ing. He died a few min­utes lat­er.

The for­mer di­rec­tor of the T&T Med­ical Board leav­ing for his of­fice at the time of the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice are yet to es­tab­lish a mo­tive for the killing.