RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

A 26-year-old man was dis­cov­ered dead in his ve­hi­cle in En­ter­prise ear­ly yes­ter­day, af­ter po­lice re­spond­ed to re­ports of a car seen bear­ing bul­let holes.

Rob­by Latch­mans­ingh, a labour­er from John Street, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, was found with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds and slumped over the dri­ver’s seat of his sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da at the in­ter­sec­tion of Egypt Trace Ex­ten­sion and Crown Trace.

Po­lice said at 1.15 am, of­fi­cers from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force were pa­trolling the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Dis­trict when they re­ceived a re­port from the E999 Com­mand Cen­tre of a ve­hi­cle seen rid­dled with bul­let holes at the cor­ner of Rod­ney Road and Crown Trace.

Re­spond­ing prompt­ly to the scene, of­fi­cers saw the Ti­i­da with its head­lights on and en­gine run­ning. Bul­let dam­age was vis­i­ble on the front wind­shield, as well as the rear right and left side doors.

The ve­hi­cle’s doors were locked, pre­vent­ing of­fi­cers from gain­ing im­me­di­ate en­try. Us­ing a stone to break the front left win­dow, the of­fi­cers gained ac­cess to the car and found Latch­mans­ingh’s body. He was slumped to his right side and had mul­ti­ple gun­shot in­juries.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion Re­gion 3 processed the scene and re­cov­ered sev­er­al items, in­clud­ing five spent 9mm rounds marked “TTR 15,” 11 spent 9mm rounds marked “FC LUGER 9mm,” and 18 spent 5.56 rounds marked “TZZ 01.” Ad­di­tion­al­ly, a black Glock mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 14 live rounds and a black Ap­ple cell phone were found at the scene. The ve­hi­cle was im­pound­ed and trans­port­ed to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion for fur­ther ex­am­i­na­tion.

The mo­tive for Latch­mans­ingh’s killing re­mains un­known. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion is urged to con­tact Crimestop­pers at 800-TIPS.