The man who was shot and killed while at­tempt­ing to steal a van in Table­land on Tues­day has been iden­ti­fied as Shawn Nichols, po­lice said.
Nichols, 54, of Phase 2, Bon Air Gar­dens, Arou­ca, died on the scene while his ac­com­plice es­caped.

Po­lice said Nichols who al­so lived at Watts Trace, Curepe, had two con­vic­tions for lar­ce­ny of a mo­tor ve­hi­cle and pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na from 2014. He al­so had 15 pend­ing mat­ters for house­break­ing and lar­ce­ny, com­mon as­sault, lar­ce­ny of a mo­tor ve­hi­cle and pos­ses­sion of arms and am­mu­ni­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, around 12.30 am Amar­dath Ram­nath was at his Robert Vil­lage home when he heard a noise out­side. He then heard his H 100 pick up, which was in the garage, idling. Ram­nath woke up his fa­ther Soon­dar Ram­nath, 84, a re­tired game war­den, who peeped out and saw two men in the garage.

The el­der­ly man who has a li­censed firearm raised an alarm and one of the men point­ed a gun at him.
He be­came fear­ful and fired at the men. One of the men fell to the ground and died while the oth­er man ran off. The body was viewed by a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who or­dered its re­moval.

Vis­it­ing the scene were of­fi­cers from the Table­land Po­lice Sta­tion and Homi­cide Bu­reau. When Guardian vis­it­ed the fam­i­ly, a man said the fam­i­ly was warned by the po­lice not to speak with the me­dia. En­quiries are on­go­ing.

Re­porter: Sascha Wil­son