T&T dance­hall artistes who con­tin­ue to pro­duce and/or are as­so­ci­at­ed with the Trini­bad genre, con­tin­ue to find them­selves as the tar­gets of gun­men.

This is the be­lief of po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors af­ter the home of a pop­u­lar artiste who now re­sides in the US, was al­leged­ly sprayed with bul­lets dur­ing the wee hours yes­ter­day.

It was re­port­ed that over 100 spent shells of as­sort­ed cal­i­bre were re­cov­ered at the scene of the prop­er­ty in west­ern Trinidad.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob con­firmed the in­ci­dent, say­ing the shoot­ing took place around 1.15 am yes­ter­day at Fran­cois Road, Care­nage. While he could not re­veal the spe­cif­ic num­ber of spent shells at the scene, Ja­cob said it was in­deed a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber.

Res­i­dents yes­ter­day al­so con­firmed hear­ing gun­fire, but re­fused to speak oth­er­wise.

Po­lice of­fi­cials were un­able to pro­vide any oth­er in­for­ma­tion as they too, com­plained of the re­luc­tance of those liv­ing near­by, to dis­cuss the in­ci­dent.

It is not known who was present at the lo­ca­tion dur­ing the shoot­ing, as every­one in­clud­ing the artiste’s man­ag­er re­mained tight-lipped about the al­leged in­ci­dent.

Trini­bad is the name that artistes call dance­hall in Trinidad, a de­riv­a­tive that was in­spired by Ja­maican dance­hall mu­sic.

Most of the songs are about the grimy side of crime, with many artistes push­ing out “gun­man” tunes.

Trini­bad artistes have been un­der at­tack since Ju­ly 2020, and re­cent killings un­der­score the brazen at­tempts on their lives.

In May, Trini­bad artiste N’Kosi “Fari Dan” Bovell, was shot dead whilst lim­ing with friends in To­ba­go.

In Ju­ly, yet an­oth­er Trini­bad ariste, Carl­ton “CJ Dan” Camp­bell, was gunned down along with three oth­ers as they en­joyed a beach bath at Damien Bay, Mara­cas.

In Au­gust, the may­hem con­tin­ued as Daniel “Mad Dog” Hamil­ton, was killed out­side his home in Moru­ga.

In Oc­to­ber 2021, Keenan “Craig­man” Craig was shot dead by an un­known man as he went to pur­chase food.

In Sep­tem­ber 2021, Josi­ah “Siah Boss” Mc Clatchie was killed dur­ing an al­leged shoot-out with po­lice in San­ta Cruz and his death fol­lowed days af­ter Ja­heim “Chucky Blan­co” Joseph was shot by po­lice dur­ing an ex­er­cise in Laven­tille.

In Ju­ly 2020, Kyle “Rebel Sixx” George was shot dead in his liv­ing room by two masked men as he played video games.

Gun­men at­tempt­ed to kill Kalon­ji Arthur ear­li­er this month as they opened fire on him in the park­ing lot of the BRIX Ho­tel, Cas­cade as he cel­e­brat­ed his girl­friend’s birth­day.

While Arthur on­ly sus­tained in­juries to the legs, Brid­get James was not as lucky and died at the scene.