Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

A Mor­vant com­mu­ni­ty was left shak­en af­ter a shoot­ing led to the death of one man and the wound­ing of an­oth­er yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said Akeem Ca­ballero, alias “Chi­nee Boy,” and Isa­iah Man­d­ley, both 22, were lim­ing with an­oth­er man out­side Build­ing B at Par­adise Heights at 9.15 am, when a man wear­ing a ban­dan­na across his face ap­proached and shot them.

Ca­ballero was shot sev­er­al times, while Man­d­ley was shot in the right side of his head but man­aged to run away.

Passers-by took both men to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope, where Ca­ballero was de­clared dead.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Man­d­ley was re­ceiv­ing treat­ment up to last evening.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II were called in with of­fi­cers from the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tion (CSI) unit, who found 13 spent 9mm shells.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Par­adise Heights yes­ter­day as po­lice of­fi­cers were seen look­ing for spent shells and pro­cess­ing the scene for ev­i­dence.

Sev­er­al res­i­dents were seen look­ing at the of­fi­cers from the safe­ty of their homes in op­po­site build­ings.

One man, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said the sud­den, un­pre­dictable na­ture of the at­tack left many res­i­dents fear­ful, as they were in the process of their dai­ly chores when they heard the gun­shots.

“It’s not a nice thing to know that this kind of vi­o­lence go­ing on right out­side your win­dow. If a stray bul­let had fly and lick down some­body, what would have hap­pened then?” he said.

The res­i­dent said he did not know ei­ther Ca­ballero or Man­d­ley well enough.

Guardian Me­dia re­turned to Par­adise Heights hours lat­er and at­tempt­ed to speak with Ca­ballero’s rel­a­tives but they de­clined to com­ment.

Par­adise Heights res­i­dents say while their neigh­bour­hood has been gen­er­al­ly peace­ful for most of the year, flare-ups of vi­o­lence have left them con­cerned about their safe­ty.

On Jan­u­ary 16, Is­rael McLaren, 18, Shaq­keem Den­nis, 27 and Jamol Williams were killed down by gun­men wear­ing po­lice tac­ti­cal gear as they sat un­der a tent out­side Build­ing D, which is with­in walk­ing dis­tance of yes­ter­day’s at­tack.

Par­adise Heights is lo­cat­ed in Mor­vant but is bor­dered by the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion Dis­trict, which is part of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion.

As of De­cem­ber 5, the Port-of-Spain and the North East­ern Di­vi­sions had two of the high­est mur­der tolls for the year, with 91 and 73 re­spec­tive­ly.

No mo­tive has been es­tab­lished for the Ca­ballero’s mur­der.