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Monday, July 7, 2025

Man who escaped hit last year gunned down in Sando

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Radhica De Silva
395 days ago
20240607

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj

@guardian.co.tt

Adri­an Cal­liste sur­vived an at­tempt on his life last year af­ter be­ing shot at point-blank range.

How­ev­er, yes­ter­day he was not so for­tu­nate as gun­men pur­sued him in­to Build­ing 1A Rush­worth Street, San Fer­nan­do, and shot him dead.

The mur­der oc­curred around 10.30 am short­ly af­ter Cal­liste ar­rived to do a trans­ac­tion.

A res­i­dent who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty said res­i­dents fled up­on hear­ing the vol­ley of gun­shots.

“When the smoke cleared, we saw this man on the ground. We did not stay around to see who it was. All of us ran when we heard the shots,” the res­i­dent re­count­ed.

Cal­liste, of South Oropouche, was found ly­ing dead in a drain with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds to his body. He was wear­ing a red, green, and yel­low vest, black three-quar­ter pants, and black slip­pers.

Po­lice say it was a tar­get­ed at­tack.

Of­fi­cers in­clud­ing PC Roopc­hand, PC Main­got, and PC Noor ar­rived on the scene first along with of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau, South­ern Di­vi­sion CID and Task Force.

Se­nior Supt Sood­een, Supt Singh, Supt Dhilpaul, ASP Per­sad, In­sp Mo­hammed, and In­sp Ma­haraj al­so vis­it­ed and took state­ments from res­i­dents.

Wit­ness­es re­port­ed see­ing a man in a hood­ie run­ning from the area near the traf­fic light on Rush­worth Street short­ly af­ter the gun­fire. The sus­pect con­tin­ued run­ning east­ward af­ter the shoot­ing.

Coun­cil­lor for Les Ef­forts East/Cipero, Ryaad Ho­sein vis­it­ed the scene.

He said the area was usu­al­ly a qui­et com­mu­ni­ty.

In May, 20-year-old Dar­i­on Pierre of Rush­worth Street was al­so shot dead and his body flung down a precipice at Cot­ton Hill, Gas­par­il­lo. His car had been stolen.

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed on his body at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre showed he died from a gun­shot wound to the head. Po­lice said it was like­ly he was al­ready dead when he was thrown down Cot­ton Hill.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the mur­ders can call Crimestop­pers at 800-TIPS. 


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