KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

A Cou­va man died from gun­shot in­juries fol­low­ing an al­leged shootout with Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice at his home on Mon­day.

A re­port stat­ed that around 11.45 am, the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force - South and Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang Unit re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about il­le­gal firearms at a house in Cou­va.

The of­fi­cers then went to Grant Street Ex­ten­sion and met Kiel Williams at home.
Of­fi­cers iden­ti­fied them­selves and told Williams they had a war­rant to search the premis­es.
They ad­vised Williams to se­cure his valu­ables be­fore the search be­gan.

How­ev­er, the of­fi­cers claimed they saw him walk in­to a bed­room and pull an ob­ject re­sem­bling a ri­fle from un­der a bed. He then emerged from the room and point­ed it at them. The of­fi­cers re­port­ed hear­ing sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions.

The of­fi­cers re­turned fire at Williams. He fell to the floor, bleed­ing from the chest. The of­fi­cers ren­dered aid be­fore tak­ing him to the Cou­va Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

Med­ical staff at­tend­ed to Williams, but he lat­er died of his in­juries. 

Supt Mon­trichard, ASP Ablacks­ingh, In­sp Dood­nath and In­sp Syl­van, Sgt Per­sad and Cpl Ra­mad­hin led oth­er Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers to process the scene and start­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.