A rob­bery sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict was shot and killed by po­lice in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at of­fi­cers pur­su­ing him dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Mikael Isa­iah Lewis of Corinth Hills.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), around 3 am, of­fi­cers were trav­el­ling along Hi­bis­cus Dri­ve, San Fer­nan­do, when two men re­port­ed that two armed as­sailants had at­tempt­ed to rob some­one but were un­suc­cess­ful.

While pro­ceed­ing along Alexan­dra Lane, they saw a man on the low­er stair­case who matched the de­scrip­tion of one of the sus­pects.

The re­lease stat­ed that when the of­fi­cers called out to the man, he ran up the stairs while hold­ing his waist. The of­fi­cers pur­sued him, or­der­ing him to stop.

At the top of the stair­case, the man al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers and re­fused to com­ply with re­peat­ed com­mands to drop the weapon.

Three of­fi­cers then opened fire on him. As the man fell to the ground, the firearm fell from his hand and was seized by po­lice.

He was im­me­di­ate­ly trans­port­ed in a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he died.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the in­ci­dent are con­tin­u­ing.

The in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed un­der the lead­er­ship of Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Hospedales, Su­per­in­ten­dent Bertie, Woman Su­per­in­ten­dent Bridglal, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dents Pacheco, Ram­saran and Chul­han and Woman As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Moti­lal.