JENSEN LA VENDE

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Four men were killed in four sep­a­rate in­ci­dents that took place be­tween Fri­day night and yes­ter­day morn­ing across T&T.

The four killings took the mur­der toll to 342 for the year. Up to De­cem­ber 5 last year, there were 569 mur­ders.

In the most re­cent of the killings, David “Dog Man” Patrick, 42, of Co­co Laven­tille Road, San Juan, was shot and killed along Laven­tille Road, San Juan, near the Laven­tille Road bas­ket­ball court.

Po­lice said around 10 am, a masked gun­man came out of a white Nis­san AD Wag­on and shot Patrick, who ran off but fell in­to a near­by drain, where he died.

Po­lice lat­er found the get­away car aban­doned at La Hoe Road, San Juan.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, a 27-year-old man was de­clared dead at 9 am yes­ter­day, af­ter he was shot while work­ing.

Po­lice said David Pas­cal, of Ka­malud­din Mo­hammed Phase 2, La Hor­quet­ta, was at work at

Ter­rel’s Stop and Eat, along De Fre­itas Boule­vard La Hor­quet­ta, when he was shot around 11 pm Sat­ur­day.

Pas­cal was shot in the chest and back, po­lice re­port­ed.

Po­lice said three spent shells with the mark­ing “TTR” and one 9mm spent shell were found at the scene.

Po­lice al­so re­port­ed two men were mur­dered while at two bars be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day night.

Gabriel Si­mon, 38, of Main Road, Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, was at Safe Land­ing Bar, Ca­roni South Bank Road, Kel­ly Vil­lage, when he was killed.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol around 2.45 am when they were stopped and told of the shoot­ing.

Si­mon was last seen alive around 2.25 am on Sat­ur­day, when he at­tempt­ed to sep­a­rate his broth­er and a woman who were in­volved in an ar­gu­ment in­side the bar be­fore they both went their sep­a­rate ways. Si­mon lat­er walked out­side to smoke a cig­a­rette, and gun­shots were heard. His body was lat­er found out­side the bar.

On Fri­day night, Mck­el Browne, of Champs Fleurs, Mt Dor, was at King Style Bar at the cor­ner of Bridge Road and East­ern Main Road, San Juan, around 8 pm when he was shot. He was tak­en to the near­by Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was de­clared dead at 9.10 pm.

It was re­port­ed that while lim­ing with the two oth­ers, one of them an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer, a gun­man snuck up be­hind them and opened fire.

Browne stum­bled away and sought help from oth­er pa­trons while the sus­pect ran off.

The off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer chased the killer and fired a sin­gle shot at him but the killer man­aged to es­cape.

A 32-year-old San Juan man who was stand­ing near­by when Browne was shot was al­so hit in the low­er back by the killer.

Po­lice had no mo­tives for any of the four killings up to last night.