Raphael John-Lall

raphael.lall@guardian.co.tt

For the sec­ond time in the space of 24 hours, there was a fa­tal shoot­ing in down­town Port-of-Spain.

Po­lice re­spond­ing to re­ports of gun­fire in the vicin­i­ty of Church’s Chick­en on In­de­pen­dence Square at around 4 am yes­ter­day found the body of 21-year-old Nathan Thomas, of St Paul Street. He had been fa­tal­ly shot in the head.

CCTV footage from the scene showed two men in dark cloth­ing com­ing out of the HDC apart­ments on Dun­can Street at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3.51 am. One of them was dressed in a black sweater with a hood­ie with a mask cov­er­ing his face. 

The men made their way on foot along George Street and on­to In­de­pen­dence Square North where the sus­pect in the hood­ie ap­proached Thomas and fired sev­er­al shots in his di­rec­tion. They fled the scene, run­ning along In­de­pen­dence Square and George Street back to the Dun­can Street apart­ments.

Thomas’ body was iden­ti­fied by his sis­ter.

This mur­der oc­curred just hours af­ter 22-year-old Shaka­ree Humphrey, of low­er Nel­son Street, was killed in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing at the cor­ner of George and Queen Streets on Fri­day af­ter­noon. Humphrey died at the scene and two el­der­ly peo­ple who were wound­ed in the in­ci­dent were treat­ed at hos­pi­tal.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to both in­ci­dents are con­tin­u­ing, as well as the mur­der of Mar­vin Scott, 44, of Laven­tille Road, who was fa­tal­ly shot by un­known gun­men at around 11.30 pm on Fri­day.