Po­lice of­fi­cers con­tin­ue to take state­ments to check against the ev­i­dence, as the in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the kid­nap­ping of doc­tors Rudrade­va Shar­ma and Prem Naidoo, which sub­se­quent­ly led to Shar­ma’s death are on­go­ing.

But up the yes­ter­day, the of­fi­cers were still work­ing on their re­port, hop­ing to sub­mit a file to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions’ of­fice lat­er this week.

The 19-year-old sus­pect from La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do re­mained in po­lice cus­tody. His al­leged 17-year-old ac­com­plice was dis­charged from the Neu­rol­o­gy ward, but re­mained in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, suf­fer­ing from in­ter­nal in­juries and bone frac­tures. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said yes­ter­day that there was noth­ing new to re­port. Shar­ma, 38 of La Ro­maine, a gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and Naidoo, 37, of Palmiste had fin­ished their shift around 10 pm last Tues­day 

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, both doc­tors went to Pleas­antville and pur­chased mar­i­jua­na, then pro­ceed­ed to Rush­worth Street Ex­ten­sion, San Fer­nan­do where Shar­ma parked his white Hon­da CRV SUV. While they were smok­ing, three men, one armed with a firearm, ap­proached and robbed them of their mo­bile phones.

The sus­pects tied up the doc­tors and placed them in the back of the ve­hi­cle and drove the SUV to the Solomon Ho­choy High­way. 

But as they ap­proached Macaulay, Clax­ton Bay around 1.50 am Wednes­day, the dri­ver lost con­trol, caus­ing the ve­hi­cle to flip sev­er­al times be­fore stop­ping in the grass.

Po­lice re­spond­ed along with am­bu­lances and the oc­cu­pants were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal. How­ev­er, Shar­ma, the nephew of for­mer Tourism Min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma,  was dead. 

One firearm was dis­cov­ered at the scene. In­ves­ti­ga­tors ini­tial­ly thought they were deal­ing with a fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent, but learnt from Naidoo that it was ac­tu­al­ly a kid­nap­ping.

Based on video footage, a fourth sus­pect may have run away from the scene.

One of the sus­pects, Akeem Ma­rine, 19, of La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do, died the fol­low­ing day. Po­lice said Ma­rine was a known firearm of­fend­er.  Dr Naidoo was dis­charged. Shar­ma was cre­mat­ed on Sun­day at the Shore of Peace, South Oropouche fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al at his home.