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Sunday, July 20, 2025

One held after police-involved shooting incident in South Trinidad

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1929 days ago
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One man was ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Princes Town on Tues­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 8.30 pm, of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion were on mo­bile pa­trol along Mandin­go Road when they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about men armed with guns, trav­el­ling in a con­voy con­sist­ing of three ve­hi­cles.

The of­fi­cers sub­se­quent­ly spot­ted one of the ve­hi­cles, a white Mit­subishi pan­el van and at­tempt­ed to in­ter­cept it. They were shot at by its oc­cu­pants.

In ac­cor­dance with the Use of Force pol­i­cy, of­fi­cers re­turned fire in an at­tempt to stop the ve­hi­cle.

It came to a halt and two male sus­pects ran off in­to some near­by bush­es.

As­sis­tance was sought to find and ap­pre­hend the sus­pects. Of­fi­cers of the Ste. Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion, the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion and Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, the Bar­rack­pore Po­lice Sta­tion and the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol Unit, joined in the search.

Fol­low­ing an ex­ten­sive search of the area, a 28-year-old man of Or­ange­field Road, Cara­pichaima, was held in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

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Sto­ry by RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT


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