An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

A labour­er was killed on Mon­day night whilst at work in Mor­vant.

Iden­ti­fied on­ly as Christo­pher, with the alias­es “Dou­ble O” and “Ko­jak”, the vic­tim re­port­ed­ly lived at St Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont.

Emer­gency Health Ser­vices were alert­ed to a shoot­ing at Massy In­dus­tri­al Es­tate at 7.30 pm on Mon­day and up­on ar­rival, they were di­rect­ed by peo­ple present to an un­fin­ished con­crete house.

In­side, the at­ten­dants found the de­ceased ly­ing in a pool of blood in the kitchen area suf­fer­ing from gun­shot wounds about the body.

Checks re­vealed no signs of life and the health work­ers alert­ed po­lice.

The body was or­dered re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, where an au­top­sy was ex­pect­ed to be con­duct­ed yes­ter­day.

Of­fi­cials re­cov­ered nine spent 9mm shell cas­ings, three live rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, and three de­formed pro­jec­tiles at the scene.

Ini­tial in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed the de­ceased was at the house prepar­ing din­ner when it was al­leged that four gun­men en­tered the premis­es and opened fire on him, be­fore flee­ing the scene on foot along Com­pre­hen­sive Road.

The killing was said to have been gang-re­lat­ed.

Three rob­bers held af­ter shootout with po­lice

Mean­while, one man was in­jured while two oth­ers were cap­tured dur­ing a shootout with po­lice of­fi­cers fol­low­ing a rob­bery at Curepe Junc­tion yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

While the three re­mained in cus­tody last night, a search was be­ing car­ried out for a fourth sus­pect, who es­caped af­ter crash­ing the get­away car.

Po­lice were al­so look­ing for a firearm that was re­port­ed­ly stashed or dis­card­ed dur­ing the at­tempt to evade law­men.

Re­ports in­di­cate the three sus­pects en­tered the Chi­nese gro­cery along the South­ern Main Road, near Bob­by’s Bar, at 1.15 pm.

As one man point­ed a firearm at the cashier, the oth­er two sus­pects al­leged­ly moved through the aisles, tak­ing food items, cig­a­rettes and al­co­hol.

Be­fore ex­it­ing the gro­cery, the armed ban­dit re­port­ed­ly emp­tied the reg­is­ter of an undis­closed amount of cash be­fore join­ing his ac­com­plices, as they ran to the wait­ing car which re­mained idling on the road.

The vic­tims alert­ed po­lice, who were on pa­trol in the area. Of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force and the St Joseph CID were able to lo­cate the get­away car with­in min­utes of the rob­bery.

The of­fi­cers pur­sued the men along the East­ern Main Road, Mt Hope, in a high-speed chase which end­ed at Hut­ton Road. A shootout re­port­ed­ly oc­curred be­tween law­men and the sus­pects.

Of­fi­cers said one man was in­jured dur­ing the shootout.

Two oth­ers were even­tu­al­ly held by of­fi­cers in the Mt Hope area, while the dri­ver man­aged to es­cape.

The sus­pects in cus­tody, whose ages ranged from ear­ly- to mid-20s, were said to be from the St Joseph and Ari­ma ar­eas.

The in­jured sus­pect was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was treat­ed and ward­ed un­der po­lice guard.

Snr Supt Richard Smith yes­ter­day praised the quick work and the de­ter­mined ef­forts by of­fi­cers to cap­ture the sus­pects, as he warned peo­ple in­tent on com­mit­ting crimes to stay out of the ju­ris­dic­tion.

In­sp Green, along with Sgt Pe­ters and of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force and the St Joseph CID, were re­spon­si­ble for ar­rest­ing the sus­pects.