A 31-year-old D’abadie man was mur­dered at his home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, short­ly be­fore mid­day Andy “San­ta” Jack was stand­ing out­side his Reid Lane home when a car stopped in front of the house. The front seat pas­sen­ger low­ered his win­dow and shot Jack sev­er­al times be­fore the dri­ver drove away.

Jack was tak­en to the Ari­ma Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal but died while un­der­go­ing treat­ment.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives had not es­tab­lished a mo­tive for Jack’s killing up to late yes­ter­day but said he was known to po­lice.

When a news team from the T&T Guardian vis­it­ed the com­mu­ni­ty short­ly af­ter the in­ci­dent, Jack’s neigh­bours were still try­ing to process what tran­spired.

“Right now I need to go in­side and lie down. This place crazy right now. What am I go­ing to tell my son when he comes back from Sun­day School? This is too much,” Jack’s next door neigh­bour, who was still in shock from the in­ci­dent, said.

Jack’s mur­der took the toll for the year to 483.

Mean­while, po­lice al­so re­cov­ered the burnt re­mains of a man in San­gre Grande yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Around 9.30 am, po­lice re­ceived a re­port of a body be­ing seen in a field at Non-Pariel Road, North Oropouche, San­gre Grande. When they ar­rived they found the body be­lieved to be that of Noel Car­ring­ton in a heap of burnt car tyres. The man’s up­per body was burnt and the low­er parts of his arms were miss­ing.

The body was dis­cov­ered by a vil­lager who was dri­ving along the road when he was at­tract­ed by cro­cus bags. The vil­lager told po­lice he thought some­one may have stolen pro­duce from peo­ple in the vil­lage and was hid­ing it to be tak­en away. He stopped his ve­hi­cle and went to in­ves­ti­gate, got a foul stench from the bags, then saw the heap of tyres and re­alised there was a body in the de­bris.

The vil­lager called the San­gre Grande Po­lice and a par­ty of of­fi­cers led by Sgt Vakesh Ramkissoon and in­clud­ing PCs Ma­habir, Ciel­to, James, Leza­ma WPCS Beek­ley and Tim­o­thy re­spond­ed.

A wal­let with an ID card and dri­ver’s per­mit bear­ing Car­ring­ton’s name was found by vil­lager about 150 me­tres away, lead­ing po­lice to be­lieve the body was his. How­ev­er, they will await a pos­i­tive ID on the body.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors had no mo­tive for that killing up to last evening, but be­lieve it may be gang-re­lat­ed due to the fact that both hands were chopped off be­fore his body was burned in the heap of tyres.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Nzegim­ma viewed the body and or­dered its re­moval to San­gre Grande mor­tu­ary.

Po­lice are ask­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to con­tact them at 668-2444 or 691-0133 or at San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

WPC Tim­o­thy of San­gre Grande CID is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.