To­ba­go in­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing a foren­sic pathol­o­gist from Trinidad to con­firm the of­fi­cial cause of death of 74-year-old Frank Alan Sandy, who was shot in Mt St George last week.

Po­lice re­ports said the pen­sion­er was shot around 5 am last Fri­day when he tried to en­ter the home of an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer. The of­fi­cer al­leged­ly be­came fear­ful and fired three times. Sandy’s rel­a­tives said he had mem­o­ry is­sues and may have got­ten lost af­ter leav­ing home for a walk that morn­ing. They crit­i­cised the of­fi­cer’s use of force.

Po­lice have con­firmed that the of­fi­cer in­volved re­mains on du­ty.

Snr Supt Earl Elie ex­plained to Guardian Me­dia that an of­fi­cer will on­ly be re­moved from ac­tive du­ty if his pres­ence will ham­per the in­ves­ti­ga­tion or if the in­ci­dent in­ter­feres with the of­fi­cer’s abil­i­ty to per­form.

Mean­while, the of­fi­cer’s rel­a­tives said they are now liv­ing in fear—af­ter wak­ing up ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing to find some­one at­tempt­ing to burn down their Mt St George home.

Since then, ten­sions in the com­mu­ni­ty have es­ca­lat­ed.

On Sun­day morn­ing, the of­fi­cer’s rel­a­tives awoke to find some­one had at­tempt­ed to set fire to their home. Flames were ig­nit­ed out­side the top floor of the two-storey house, where sev­er­al rel­a­tives, in­clud­ing chil­dren and a se­nior cit­i­zen, were asleep. The of­fi­cer lives down­stairs. His moth­er no­ticed the fire and man­aged to ex­tin­guish it be­fore it could spread.

The fam­i­ly claimed the ar­son at­tempt was fu­eled by mis­in­for­ma­tion and anger over the shoot­ing, and said the house had al­ready been the tar­get of mul­ti­ple at­tempt­ed break-ins in re­cent weeks.

The fam­i­ly has since ex­tend­ed sym­pa­thy to Sandy’s loved ones.

ACP Os­wain Subero said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing.

A sep­a­rate probe has al­so been launched in­to the sus­pect­ed ar­son.