SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

A 40-year-old busi­ness­man is this coun­try's lat­est mur­der vic­tim af­ter he was gunned down while dri­ving a van in Freeport on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said res­i­dents of Mis­sion Road re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots at around 9.30 pm and on check­ing saw that a white Isuzu one and a half-ton van crashed in­to the fence of some­one's house.

The dri­ver, Suresh Moon­sam­my (the own­er of Big Wave Au­to), was found with sev­er­al gun­shot wounds in the ve­hi­cle.

Of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force were called in to­geth­er with a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who de­clared Moon­sam­my at the scene.

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors found 18 spent 9 mm shells and four de­formed bul­lets at the scene.

Moon­sam­my's body was tak­en to a fu­ner­al home for stor­age be­fore an au­top­sy could be done on Mon­day, while his van was towed to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors sus­pect rob­bery might have been the mo­tive for Moon­sam­my's mur­der.

Re­gion III Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

Moon­sam­my's mur­der brought the mur­der toll to 207, com­pared to 307 for the same pe­ri­od in 2024.